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Pärnu l.

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems605
Verses6,215
Distinct words6,831
Collection years1878–1939
CollectorsTõnis Jeerik · Linda Adamson · Anita Talo
Coordinates58.3844, 24.4989

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
lakkis18
pitsen17
poki14
patsen16
peeben13
klaveri12
eeben12
kaljakappa16
oaõis19
süüst52
sigala10
kardavoi17
loomast8
inglismaad13
laki18
treika6
kingsepp18
konnareis7
pragadi8
prigadi8

Villages and communes the songs were collected in

Of the 605 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 602 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.

Surju v. (3)
Also recorded at Pärnu (62) and Saarde (47).
Surju (3)
Also recorded at Pärnu (15).
Poems with no finer place recorded (602)

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.