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Pilistvere

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,167
Verses24,268
Distinct words18,844
Collection years1876–1940
CollectorsHans Siimer · Mart Saar · Jaan Söödur (Söödor)
Coordinates58.6406, 25.6255

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
kaanike33
kaasike37
vaonud7
neitsikesed36
rehitseb8
tasun10
uilijuili4
jailijaili4
sirkukulugu4
viisilised4
vaesikesi4
nurjatumast4
õnnerublad4
patsisse4
minap13
lauaalune7
neidised12
kallistasid14
kämmelile5
tõutsid8

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,167 poems collected in this place, 792 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 375 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); al. = alevik (small borough). 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.

Kabala v. (266)
Kurla (8)
Kabala (3)
Pibari (2)
Rassi (1)
references naming only the commune
Kõo v. (265)
Soomevere (22)
Kangru (18)
Koksvere (14)
Kobina (12)
Venevere (5)
Maalaste (4)
Võhma (4)
Kõksvere (2)
Uduallika (2)
Kirivere (1)
Mändla (1)
Somevere (1)
references naming only the commune
Imavere v. (111)
Kiigevere (43)
Taadikvere (24)
Järavere (21)
Rästna (8)
Viruvere (1)
references naming only the commune
Võisiku v. (57)
Also recorded at Kolga-Jaani (640) and Põltsamaa (81).
Rõstla (14)
Also recorded at Kolga-Jaani (4).
Nõmavere (4)
references naming only the commune
Eistvere v. (32)
Puiatu (30)
references naming only the commune
Vana-Põltsamaa v. (23)
Viitjärve (9)
Räsna (7)
Also recorded at Põltsamaa (2).
Vitsjärve (5)
references naming only the commune
Pilistvere v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 20 records)
Kõo (18)
Maalasti (2)
Kurla Taavita (2)
Käsukonna as. (6)
Kõo m. (30)
Laimetsa m. (4)
Eistvere m. (2)
Võhma al. (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (375)

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.