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Palamuse

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,287
Verses21,712
Distinct words16,186
Collection years1880–1943
CollectorsHelene Maasen-Varik · Hans Karu (Karro) · Jüri Varik (Varrik)
Coordinates58.6642, 26.5637

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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
keriku32
kaebada7
järvekallas5
udupalaka5
mukiga8
laalemaie15
kingajala6
kudub11
abivaimusse6
peterseelid6
saardeje6
mekin10
saanudeksi8
kaindelasse11
nugadele5
kõndinesse7
viljastagi6
peretütrile6
väinale6
saksapuu6

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,287 poems collected in this place, 943 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 344 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.

Kaarepere v. (440)
Patjala-Mõisama (9)
Patjala (3)
references naming only the commune
Luua v. (305)
Kuremaa v. (134)
Also recorded at Laiuse (11).
Vinni (74)
Kuremaa as. (5)
Kuremaa m. (16)
Also recorded at Laiuse (11).
Imukvere m. (2)
references naming only the commune
Kudina v. (31)
Also recorded at Maarja-Magdaleena (190).
Maarla (1)
references naming only the commune
Roela v. (20)
Also recorded at Torma (23).
Tuulavere (12)
Sirguvere (4)
references naming only the commune
Palamuse v. (2)
Järvepera (2)
Tuulavere v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 5 records)
Olukvere (2)
Toovere (2)
Kallivere (1)
Visusi (1)
Vainu t. (3)
Mikumetsa t. (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (344)

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.