Rakvere
Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)
| Tradition | Estonian (ERAB corpus) |
|---|---|
| Poems | 463 |
| Verses | 6,717 |
| Distinct words | 8,147 |
| Collection years | 1875–1938 |
| Collectors | Elken, Juhan (Johan), Rosenstrauch |
| Coordinates | 59.3524, 26.3514 |
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Distinctive vocabulary
Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.
| Word | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| kiuksusid | 4 |
| väila | 8 |
| jumpsiti | 3 |
| uidutuidu | 5 |
| tropil | 2 |
| kelmim | 2 |
| törgeldes | 2 |
| listis | 2 |
| piavanemb | 2 |
| kendaaie | 2 |
| päävatõusula | 2 |
| luokesta | 2 |
| luokesi | 2 |
| suhkruviinaklaas | 2 |
| ohvitseriga | 2 |
| nääripääval | 2 |
| abikaasaksa | 2 |
| vareksele | 4 |
| vihistab | 3 |
| joodin | 4 |
Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in
Of the 463 poems collected in this place, 188 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 275 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.
Sõmeru v. (113)
Aluvere (35)
- ERA II 70, 365 (1)
- ERA II 70, 365 (2)
- ERA II 70, 365 (4)
- ERA II 70, 365 (5)
- EÜS IX 1090/1 (3)
- EÜS IX 1091/2 (4)
- EÜS IX 1092/3 (5)
- EÜS IX 1093 (6)
- EÜS IX 1093/4 (7)
- EÜS IX 1094 (8)
- EÜS IX 1101/2 (16)
- EÜS IX 1132 (83)
- EÜS IX 1133 (84)
- EÜS IX 1133/4 (85)
- EÜS IX 1134 (85b)
- EÜS IX 1134 (86)
- EÜS IX 1135 (87)
- EÜS IX 1135 (88)
- EÜS IX 1136 (89)
- EÜS IX 1136/7 (90)
- EÜS IX 1137 (91)
- EÜS IX 1137 (92)
- EÜS IX 1137/8 (93)
- EÜS IX 1138/9 (94)
- EÜS IX 1139 (95)
- EÜS IX 1140 (96)
- EÜS IX 1140 (97)
- EÜS IX 1140 (98)
- EÜS IX 1140/1 (99)
- EÜS IX 1141 (100)
- EÜS IX 1141/2 (101)
- EÜS IX 1143 (105)
- EÜS IX 1143 (106)
- EÜS IX 1143 (107)
- EÜS IX 1144 (108)
Näpi (32)
- E 59349
- ERA II 10, 547 (1)
- ERA II 10, 547/9 (2)
- ERA II 10, 549 (3)
- ERA II 10, 641 (1)
- ERA II 10, 641 (2)
- ERA II 10, 641 (3a)
- ERA II 10, 643 (3b)
- ERA II 10, 643/5 (4)
- ERA II 10, 645 (5)
- ERA II 10, 645/7 (6)
- ERA II 10, 647 (8)
- ERA II 10, 647 (9)
- ERA II 10, 649 (10)
- ERA II 10, 649/51 (11)
- ERA II 10, 651 (12)
- ERA II 10, 651 (13)
- ERA II 10, 653 (15)
- ERA II 10, 653 (15b)
- ERA II 10, 653 (16)
- ERA II 10, 653 (17)
- ERA II 10, 655 (19)
- ERA II 10, 655 (20)
- ERA II 10, 655 (21)
- ERA II 10, 655 (22a)
- ERA II 10, 657 (22b)
- ERA II 10, 659 (25)
- ERA II 10, 661 (25a)
- ERA II 10, 661 (27)
- ERA II 10, 665 (31)
- ERA II 10, 665/9 (32)
- ERA II 42, 345 (3)
Arkna (20)
- EÜS IX 1145 (109)
- EÜS IX 1145 (110)
- EÜS IX 1145 (111)
- EÜS IX 1145/6 (112)
- EÜS IX 1146 (113)
- EÜS IX 1146 (114)
- EÜS IX 1146 (115)
- EÜS IX 1146/7 (116)
- EÜS IX 1147 (117)
- EÜS IX 1147 (118)
- EÜS IX 1147 (119)
- EÜS IX 1148 (120)
- EÜS IX 1148 (121)
- EÜS IX 1148 (122)
- EÜS IX 1148 (123)
- EÜS IX 1149 (124)
- EÜS IX 1149 (125)
- EÜS IX 1149/50 (126)
- EÜS IX 1150 (127)
- EÜS IX 1150 (127a)
Kohala (12)
Lõuta (10)
Rakvere v. (35)
Järni (5)
Karitsa (5)
Karivärava (1)
Tamna (1)
- ERA II 88, 480/1 (12) — Kadarpiku t.
- ERA II 88, 490/1 (2)
- ERA II 88, 495/7 (6)
- ERA II 88, 503/4 (10)
- ERA II 88, 505/6 (12)
- ERA II 88, 512 (17)
- ERA II 88, 519/20 (23)
- EÜS IX 1124 (67)
- EÜS IX 1125 (68)
- EÜS IX 1125 (69)
- EÜS IX 1125 (70)
- EÜS IX 1125/6 (71)
- EÜS IX 1126 (72)
- EÜS IX 1126/7 (73)
- EÜS IX 1127 (74)
- EÜS IX 1128 (75)
- EÜS IX 1128/9 (76)
- EÜS IX 1129 (77)
- EÜS IX 1129 (78)
- EÜS IX 1129/30 (79)
- EÜS IX 1130/1 (80)
- EÜS IX 1131 (81)
Kohala v. (19)
Kloodi v. (12)
Assamalla v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (1 village, 3 records)
Laanemõisa (15)
Tõrma-Metsküla (6)
Rägavere Aru (2)
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.
- mis seal poja puusa pealla (H II 38, 493/5 (4)) — parallel in Haljala
- meil on kodu kullassepad (EÜS IX 1125/6 (71)) — parallel in Haljala
- mis siin sõidab teeda mööda (E 1049 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
- lähme ema aua peale (H II 1, 50 (63)) — parallel in Kuusalu
- neitsikesed noorukesed (E 1049/50 (3)) — parallel in Kadrina
- mees on pealla kui see päeva (E 1049 (2)) — parallel in Kadrina
- karjalaudad kaunikesta (E 1048/9 (1)) — parallel in Ambla
- kuus sai kuivand kinga vasta (E 10412) — parallel in Ambla
- kuidas pean koju minema (E 1052 (6)) — parallel in Jõhvi
- neitsikene noorukene (E 1048/9 (1)) — parallel in Jõhvi