Ridala

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	320
Verses	3,709
Distinct words	5,136
Collection years	1888–1939
Collectors	Kreek, Cyrillus, Johannes
Coordinates	58.8417, 23.5583

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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
keisin	8
lambus	5
uisupoisid	3
tahmaseid	3
saastaseid	3
lippige	5
lappige	5
karvanuustikale	2
tõltsub	2
püssikirjad	2
lekub	2
lennakses	2
allirauad	2
kimblirauad	2
kebjaks	2
valejuttusid	2
mena	4
põlend	8
sauekänk	2
lambatalleks	2

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 320 poems collected in this place, 281 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 39 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.

Asuküla v. (109)

Velkla (22)

Tanska (11)

Kolu (9)

ERA I 5, 320 (1)
ERA II 55, 318/9 (1) — Kopli t.
ERA II 55, 320 (3) — Kopli t.
ERA II 55, 320 (4) — Kopli t.
ERA II 9, 241 (16) — Peetri t.
ERA II 9, 241/2 (17) — Peetri t.
ERA II 9, 242 (18) — Peetri t.
ERA II 9, 242 (19) — Peetri t.
ERA II 9, 242 (20) — Peetri t.

Nõmme (9)

Ahli (8)

Eigla (6)

Kivi (6)

Mägari (3)

Mäe (2)

Hiiemäe (1)

EÜS VIII 392 (100)

Rohuküla (1)

EÜS VIII 354 (36)

references naming only the commune

Võnnu v. (99)

Võnnu (14)

Kabrametsa (8)

Liiva (5)

Saanika (5)

Üsse (4)

ERA II 55, 381/4 (2) — Nurga t.
ERA II 55, 387/90 (7) — Nurga t.
ERA II 55, 390 (9) — Nurga t.
ERA II 55, 477 (179) — Nurga t.

Kesu (1)

ERA II 30, 295/7 (19)

Unduansu (1)

E, StK 19, 78 (64)

references naming only the commune

Sinalepa v. (46)

Kiideva (21)

Kolila (8)

Tuuru (4)

Jõõdra (3)

Emuvere (2)

Puise (2)

Allika (1)

EÜS VIII 375 (71)

references naming only the commune

Ridala v. (13)

E 64245/6 (6)
E, StK 19, 72 (59) — Nurga t.
E, StK 19, 73 (60) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 74/5 (61) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 76 (62) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 77 (63) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 78 (64)
E, StK 19, 79 (65) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 80 (66) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 81 (67) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 81 (68) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 81 (69) — Unduansu t.
E, StK 19, 81/2 (70) — Unduansu t.

Taebla v. (8)

Nihka (8)

ERA II 159, 489 (49) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 489 (50) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 490 (51) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 490 (52) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 490 (53) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 795 (43) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 795 (44) — Kuhntra t.
ERA II 159, 795/6 (45) — Kuhntra t.

Vanamõisa v. (7)

Uuemõisa v. (3)

Asukala v. (1)

EÜS VIII 353 (34)

Ungru v. (1)

ERA II 30, 413 (9)

Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 11 records)

Jõõdre (6)

Sinika (3)

Hallikmäe (1)

ERA II 9, 223 (2)

Vätse (1)

ERA II 9, 223 (1) — Kortsi t.

Viltküla (12)

E, StK 19, 83 (73) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 84/5 (74) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 87/8 (76) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 89 (77) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 89 (78) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 90 (79) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 91 (80) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 91 (81) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 92 (82) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 92 (83) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 93 (84) — Taska t.
E, StK 19, 94 (85) — Taska t.

Valgevälja kõrts (2)

Kiviküla (1)

E, StK 19, 70/1 (58) — Lauriantsu t.

Sepaküla (1)

E, StK 19, 82 (72) — Juhani t.

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.

sa jätsid ilu heinamaale (H IV 7, 29 (6)) — parallel in Risti
noored mehed müidevad (H IV 7, 29 (6)) — parallel in Risti
söögem langud joogem langud (E 53545 (12)) — parallel in Haljala
kui mina hakkan laulema (H IV 7, 27 (4)) — parallel in Haljala
ta ei teadnud tite nime (E, StK 19, 84/5 (74)) — parallel in Kuusalu
ma olen peretütre poega (EÜS VIII 401 (118)) — parallel in Kuusalu
jumal hoidku tuld kitsas kohas (H II 54, 554 (3)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
ära torka teademata (H II 54, 555 (5)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
ei tule naene minule (EÜS VIII 379/81 (79)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
neli noorta neiukesta (H II 26, 219/20 (2)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani