Pärnumaa

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.

Parishes and places filed under Pärnumaa

Of the 100 poems collected under this name, 9 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 91 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: khk. = kihelkond (parish). 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.

• härra mõisas mõtlemaie (Veske 4, 337 (50)) — parallel in Pärnu
• siis jääb küla kuulatama (Veske 4, 337 (50)) — parallel in Pärnu
• veimevakka valmistagu (Veske 4, 314/6 (29)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kimmel võind kiva vedada (Veske 4, 313 (27)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• mardi varvad valutavad (Veske 4, 329/34 (45)) — parallel in Tori
• laia vitsa laksumine (Veske 4, 327 (41)) — parallel in Tori
• rahvas peale paaristikku (Veske 4, 343 (62)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• videvik viib magamaie (Veske 4, 343 (62)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• ostis mulle uue põlle (Veske 4, 352/3 (3)) — parallel in Audru
• taadikene tammekene (Veske 4, 352/3 (3)) — parallel in Audru