Palamuse

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	1,274
Verses	21,486
Distinct words	16,156
Collection years	1880–1940
Collectors	Maasen (Masen, Varik), Helene
Coordinates	58.6642, 26.5637

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

Word	Occurrences
keriku	32
kaebada	7
järvekallas	5
udupalaka	5
kingajala	6
mukiga	8
abivaimusse	6
peterseelid	6
saardeje	6
nugadele	5
kudub	11
saanudeksi	8
viljastagi	6
peretütrile	6
saksapuu	6
väinale	6
kõndinesse	7
län	6
mekin	10
laalemaie	15

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,274 poems collected in this place, 942 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 332 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.

Kaarepere v. (440)

Patjala-Mõisama (9)

ERA II 274, 432 (11) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 445 (35) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 452/3 (57) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 455 (59) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 456 (60) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 461 (63) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 469/70 (69) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 470/1 (70) — Mardirahva t.
ERA II 274, 473/4 (73) — Mardirahva t.

Patjala (3)

references naming only the commune

Luua v. (305)

Kuremaa v. (134)

Kudina v. (31)

Maarla (1)

E 60055/6

references naming only the commune

Roela v. (19)

Tuulavere (12)

Sirguvere (4)

references naming only the commune

Palamuse v. (2)

Järvepera (2)

ERA II 274, 381 (16)
ERM 12, 40/1 — Posti t.

Tuulavere v. (1)

H, Ostrov 145/6 (26)

Villages with no commune on the record (3 villages, 5 records)

Olukvere (2)

Toovere (2)

ERM 12, 36/7 — Veski t.
ERM 12, 37 — Veski t.

Kallivere (1)

AES, MT 225, 18

Vinni (74)

Visusi (1)

H IV 9, 639/40 (1)

Kuremaa as. (5)

ERA II 72, 449 (9) — Laane t.
ERA II 72, 451 (11) — Laane t.
ERA II 72, 451 (13) — Laane t.
ERA II 72, 451 (17) — Laane t.
ERA II 72, 451 (19) — Laane t.

Kuremaa m. (16)

Imukvere m. (2)

Vainu t. (3)

Mikumetsa t. (2)

Poems with no finer place recorded (332)

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.

nurgad nutvad noorukesta (H III 8, 481/2 (13)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
rikas rehe katussella (EKS 48, 16 (12)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
oma saapad jalassa (EKS 48, 130/7 (15)) — parallel in Haljala
oma kantsik kaendelassa (EKS 48, 130/7 (15)) — parallel in Haljala
üle mere marja (ERA II 72, 341 (9)) — parallel in Kuusalu
altaja hammaste ilada (H III 8, 860/1 (10)) — parallel in Kuusalu
laterisse lehtelauku (E 40220 (1)) — parallel in Laiuse
kus ma nutsin nurgad märjad (H III 8, 309/10 (8)) — parallel in Laiuse
võttis põlvista põdeda (H III 8, 865/7 (16)) — parallel in Põltsamaa
koputasin kodarapuida (H II 27, 704 (16)) — parallel in Põltsamaa