Paide 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.

Villages and communes the songs were collected in

Of the 128 poems collected in this place, 6 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 122 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). 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.

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.

• kasvamata kaasadelle (EKS 1, 135/6 (12)) — parallel in Ambla
• milla veeren vendadele (H II 26, 917 (22)) — parallel in Ambla
• hõbedase õue peale (H III 12, 485/6 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• mere äärta äigamaie (H II 26, 911/2 (5)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• pärast tuled poisi palvele (EKS 1, 38) — parallel in Haljala
• mis te endist arvate (EKS 1, 38) — parallel in Haljala
• meie alles eineeta (E 51838 (4)) — parallel in Türi
• kilter kirju linnukene (E 51838 (4)) — parallel in Türi
• tõuse ja tõuta ikka (H III 12, 486/8 (2)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• pilved pikka igada (H II 26, 915 (18)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani