Narva l.

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.

Places the songs were collected in

Of the 486 poems collected in this place, 162 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 324 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. 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.

• soome soolade puhujad (H II 1, 97 (138)) — parallel in Haljala
• oma kantsik kaendelassa (EÜS X 2914/5 (102)) — parallel in Haljala
• seal olid kanged mängumehed (E 11555) — parallel in Kuusalu
• luulemaie laulamaie (H III 31, 265/6 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• ei ole sõas naine armas (H I 3, 9/10 (2)) — parallel in Jõhvi
• ei ole sõjas naine armas (EÜS X 2914/5 (102)) — parallel in Jõhvi
• kallis kaske kaitse minda (H III 1, 175/6 (1)) — parallel in Ambla
• otsis lapse lausujaida (H I 3, 21 (33)) — parallel in Ambla
• kes ei tunne see küsigu (H II 37, 49/50 (1)) — parallel in Kadrina
• märkasid üle mägede (H I 1, 18/9 (5)) — parallel in Kadrina