Paide

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 411 poems collected in this place, 47 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 364 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.

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.

• laudast valgepea vasika (H, Gr. Qu. 145/6 (13)) — parallel in Haljala
• lakast laululinnukese (H, Gr. Qu. 145/6 (13)) — parallel in Haljala
• kata maie mata maie (H, Gr. Qu. 145/6 (13)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• ei mini tule sinule (H, Gr. Qu. 158/9 (27b)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• aruheina haua peale (H III 18, 43/4 (11)) — parallel in Ambla
• siga läks tööle sirp oli vööle (ERA II 14, 122/3 (75)) — parallel in Ambla
• veere veere päevakene (H, Gr. Qu. 169/70 (39)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• sinililled lehmadella (H, Gr. Qu. 166/8 (37)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• kasvamata kaasadele (EKS 15, 3/4 (2)) — parallel in Türi
• pihelgane piitsukene (ERA II 14, 104/5 (15)) — parallel in Türi