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Nissi

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems188
Verses1,807
Distinct words3,241
Collection years1896–1939
CollectorsHans (Laikmaa, Ants) Laipmann · Rudolf Põldmäe · J. Masmann
Coordinates59.0739, 24.2391

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
muudku4
muol3
vardi3
joodakse2
kaevasid2
mõises2
söödakse2
teivastest4
põlvega2
halgudest2
numre2
soan3
mõisavanemad2
laenetavad2
terviksid2
juuriti2
laitse2
saeatan2
rindadeks2
õbelõngse1

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 188 poems collected in this place, 166 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 22 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); m. = mõis (manor); as. = asundus (settlement). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index. Commune borders and parish borders did not coincide, so some of these places were also written down under a neighbouring collection place; those entries link to the other list.

Varbola v. (41)
Also recorded at Rapla (1).
Pölli (21)
Rahula (4)
Kännu (1)
references naming only the commune
Laitse v. (26)
Kibuna (4)
Vansi (1)
references naming only the commune
Riisipere v. (11)
Odolemma (3)
Mustu (2)
Seppu (1)
references naming only the commune
Piirsalu v. (8)
Also recorded at Kullamaa (23).
Sooniste v. (3)
Also recorded at Kullamaa (6).
Lepaste (3)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 2 records)
Kobru (1)
Sopu (1)
Aruküla (3)
Põlde (3)
Laitse as. (13)
Nurme m. (75)
Laitse m. (4)
Poems with no finer place recorded (22)

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.