Mustjala

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 892 poems collected in this place, 759 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 133 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

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.

• istu tooli lange lauda (AES, MT 174, 28/9) — parallel in Haljala
• mehed mütsata mürasid (AES, MT 174, 37/8) — parallel in Haljala
• taevas laia lunda kinni (AES, MT 174, 34/5) — parallel in Pöide
• ma laulaksin kui tohiksin (AES, MT 174, 35) — parallel in Pöide
• poiss on puhas ei see puudu (AES, MT 174, 37/8) — parallel in Kuusalu
• üle mere marja (ERA II 34, 218 (16)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• sõnna otsa läks ta kiiku (AES, MT 174, 32/3) — parallel in Muhu
• peaks mina piisa viina saama (AES, MT 174, 39) — parallel in Muhu
• kell neli vana veli (ERA II 82, 558 (7)) — parallel in Setumaa
• poiss ei jäta puutumata (AES, MT 174, 30) — parallel in Setumaa