Noarootsi

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 76 poems collected in this place, 27 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 49 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.

• minu hall on teeda käinud (H III 4, 642/4 (2)) — parallel in Risti
• laena minu laugul juua (H III 4, 642/4 (2)) — parallel in Risti
• laut jääb lahti lammastest (H II 17, 947/8 (10)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• talgutolm ei tee neid hukka (H III 4, 652/4 (9)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• hallid hõbehelmestesse (H II 17, 947 (9)) — parallel in Haljala
• noorukene neiukene (H III 4, 641/2 (1)) — parallel in Haljala
• üks kaks kolm neli viis kuus seitse (ERA I 4, 878/82) — parallel in Kuusalu
• lüpsa neljasta nisasta (H II 17, 960 (11)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• põletas põlved mõlemad (H III 4, 645/6 (4)) — parallel in Pärnu-Jaagupi
• kas on venna vääriline (H III 4, 644/5 (3)) — parallel in Pärnu-Jaagupi