Reigi

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 334 poems collected in this place, 261 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 73 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.

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.

• lehm mulle piima (ERA II 189, 203/4 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• toa taga tammikus (EÜS II 927/9 (86)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• millal jõuab eluõhtu (E, StK 21, 55/6 (25)) — parallel in Setumaa
• kotis leivakooruksed (E, StK 21, 55/6 (25)) — parallel in Setumaa
• siin maailmas elada (EÜS II 965/8 (123)) — parallel in Haljala
• soolaterad nartsu sees (EÜS II 875/6 (18)) — parallel in Haljala
• seal oli õues hõbeposti (EÜS II 920/2 (79)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• tõstkem jalga valged sukad (EÜS II 946/7 (101)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kes minu pärast nutavad (E, StK 21, 50 (22)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• petersellid peedijuured (EÜS II 900 (55)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani