Peetri

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.

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,320 poems collected in this place, 1,105 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 215 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.

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.

• leidsin kerbu kiikumasta (EÜS VIII 580 (94)) — parallel in Ambla
• läksin kiike vaatamaie (EÜS VIII 580 (94)) — parallel in Ambla
• lähme jaanipäev kiriku (EÜS IX 1018 (119)) — parallel in Haljala
• ei või tõusta ei ärata (EÜS IX 1018 (119)) — parallel in Haljala
• tõuse üles mu isake (H II 13, 532/4 (39)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• laulemaie luulemaie (H II 40, 95/6 (1042)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• meil oli meil oli üks ilus eit (E 59900/1 (2)) — parallel in Koeru
• kadrid tulnud kaugeelta (EÜS X 2246 (24)) — parallel in Koeru
• kui mina ära sureksin (H II 13, 509/12 (22)) — parallel in Kadrina
• käisin pulmassa mõnessa (EÜS VIII 739/42 (339)) — parallel in Kadrina