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Ridala

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems326
Verses3,749
Distinct words5,188
Collection years1888–1942
CollectorsCyrillus Kreek · Johannes Muda (Helila) · Enda Ennist
Coordinates58.8417, 23.5583

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
keisin8
lambus5
lippige5
lappige5
uisupoisid3
tahmaseid3
saastaseid3
põlend8
karvanuustikale2
tõltsub2
püssikirjad2
lennakses2
lekub2
allirauad2
kimblirauad2
kebjaks2
valejuttusid2
mena4
silise3
sauekänk2

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 326 poems collected in this place, 285 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 41 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. 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.

Asuküla v. (109)
Velkla (22)
Tanska (11)
Kolu (9)
Nõmme (9)
Ahli (8)
Eigla (6)
Kivi (6)
Mägari (3)
Mäe (2)
Hiiemäe (1)
Rohuküla (1)
Viltküla (12)
Kiviküla (1)
Sepaküla (1)
references naming only the commune
Võnnu v. (100)
Also recorded at Lääne-Nigula (1).
Võnnu (14)
Also recorded at Lääne-Nigula (1).
Kabrametsa (8)
Liiva (5)
Saanika (5)
Üsse (4)
Kesu (1)
Unduansu (1)
references naming only the commune
Sinalepa v. (49)
Kiideva (21)
Kolila (8)
Tuuru (4)
Jõõdra (3)
Emuvere (2)
Puise (2)
Allika (1)
references naming only the commune
Ridala v. (13)
Taebla v. (8)
Nihka (8)
Also recorded at Lääne-Nigula (5).
Vanamõisa v. (7)
Uuemõisa v. (3)
Asukala v. (1)
Ungru v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 11 records)
Jõõdre (6)
Sinika (3)
Hallikmäe (1)
Vätse (1)
Valgevälja kõrts (2)
Poems with no finer place recorded (41)

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.