Püha

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 55 poems collected in this place, 40 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 15 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.

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.

• eks sa tulnud tunamullu (EKS 9, 3 (3)) — parallel in Muhu
• kes see parmu maha lõi (ERA II 116, 296 (12)) — parallel in Muhu
• isa ütles poeg poeg (H, R 3, 209/10 (2)) — parallel in Mustjala
• ehk ta selle söömaga (ERA II 116, 282/3 (3)) — parallel in Mustjala
• tammu tammu taadi poega (ERA II 116, 295 (9)) — parallel in Kaarma
• siiski ma pean sisse saama (E 80555 (1)) — parallel in Kaarma
• lehm läks leedi vasikaga (ERA II 116, 289/91 (2)) — parallel in Karja
• jäljed jättis siia maale (ERA II 107, 369/71 (10)) — parallel in Karja
• vesi palki veeretanud (EKmS 4° 2, 106 (19)) — parallel in Pöide
• isa mind sõimas ilveseks (ERA II 116, 289 (1)) — parallel in Pöide