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Paide

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems442
Verses5,429
Distinct words6,241
Collection years1888–1936
CollectorsO. J. Siiun · Aleksander Hanson · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum)
Coordinates58.8580, 25.5762

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
mäledasse3
helletage3
lehtulindu3
aluspalgi4
heinalised3
hoostelised3
vaimupõlve4
hagust3
haledasse3
jukule3
lipitsesin3
koivadest3
palest4
võiab4
plaksub6
kuuküllvalgel2
naisenappust2
ööküllvalgel2
haigema2
karvaseksi2

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 442 poems collected in this place, 77 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 365 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. 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.

Mäo v. (66)
Also recorded at Peetri (177) and Paide l. (6).
Seinapalu (35)
Also recorded at Paide l. (6).
Tarbja (1)
references naming only the commune
Kurek (11)
Poems with no finer place recorded (365)

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.