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Muhu

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,102
Verses30,044
Distinct words21,734
Collection years1867–1940
CollectorsGustav Seen · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) · Mihkel Pehka
Coordinates58.5530, 23.1978

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
uo65
kut55
meielaale18
aitimal35
tullid60
kojose23
madalukeine20
õuve35
pesitlenud14
venisid16
mool35
moole40
tustil16
kuies27
ätse21
pähkid14
sõjamõekade14
kostelesse14
uie48
uatama12

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,102 poems collected in this place, 545 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 557 records give no finer place, or one of a kind this list does not cover. The counts reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung. Names are shown as written on the records, so they span different eras’ commune divisions; a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from, and a name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself. The abbreviations after the names are the archive’s own unit words: v. = vald (commune); t. = talu (farm); as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Muhu v. (242)
Liiva (59)
Lõetsa (54)
Lalli (49)
Tupenurme (33)
Hellamaa (9)
Kallaste (8)
Viira (4)
Lahe (2)
Sonda (2)
Vahtraste (2)
Kuivastu (1)
Mõega (1)
Rässa (1)
Uieelu popsikoht (8)
Võlla as. (11)
references naming only the commune
Muhu-Suure v. (137)
Igaküla (40)
Soonda (22)
Mäla (21)
Suuremõisa (17)
Suuremõisa II (10)
Nautse (4)
Linnuse (3)
Piiri (2)
Rebaskivi (1)
Soanda (1)
Nurme as. (1)
Suuremõisa as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Hellamaa v. (40)
Lepiku (8)
Levalõpme (8)
Pärase (5)
Simiste (2)
Võlla (1)
references naming only the commune
Muhu-Hellamaa v. (21)
Tusti (1)
Juri t (1)
Pädaste as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Pihtla v. (1)
Räimaste (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (6 villages, 108 records)
Rootsivere (63)
Koguva (15)
Tamse (10)
Võrkaa (10)
Külasema (6)
Rintsi (4)
Muhu Suurvald (114)
Muhu-Suurvald (20)
Võiküla (11)
Nõmmküla (9)
Kantsimõisa põld (8)
Suurvald (2)
Aruküla (1)
Kaatsimõisa põld (1)
Uietoa t. (18)
Vesimaa t. (5)
Risti t. (4)
Poems with no finer place recorded (557)

Sample verses with parallels in other places

Verses recorded here whose close parallels appear in poems from other collection places — a trace of the shared oral tradition.