Saaremaa

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.

Parishes and places filed under Saaremaa

Of the 210 poems collected under this name, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 207 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: khk. = kihelkond (parish). 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.

• vau mina kündsin teise mina vaatsin (EKmS 4° 4, 396/7 (1)) — parallel in Pöide
• merepõhja põllumaaks (H I 5, 219 (3)) — parallel in Pöide
• aitimmal äia aitimmal ämma (H, R 1, 52 (12)) — parallel in Muhu
• vesikaarest valju vihma (H II 18, 10/1 (3)) — parallel in Muhu
• soome sae saare sae (EKmS 8° 1, 315/6 (3)) — parallel in Karja
• tammerdab meie tänavad (EKmS 8° 1, 315/6 (3)) — parallel in Karja
• ema kuulis kostis vasto (H I 3, 116/7 (14)) — parallel in Setumaa
• suguvõsa suksutleda (H I 3, 117/8 (16)) — parallel in Setumaa
• ära otsi uhkeeid (EKmS 4° 2, 225 (6)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• veeretasin viisikuusi (H II 18, 27/8 (9)) — parallel in Kuusalu