RunoVerse

Simuna

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,283
Verses20,577
Distinct words17,400
Collection years1870–1939
CollectorsRosenstrauch, Karl Voldemar, Böckler (Pöckler)
Coordinates59.0073, 26.5051

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

WordOccurrences
kojuje35
kosteleksi16
kuulin40
kostin27
laalemaie20
kedreluud7
raisakondid6
kündedessa7
majaje14
röökijad4
lahutanud10
käässa14
palveida15
ämmakene22
arulla9
kaendelassa14
pilgutama4
altarid5
koorid5
koeru5

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,283 poems collected in this place, 838 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 445 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); m. = mõis (manor); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Salla v. (226)
Lasinurme (51)
Selli (43)
Mõisamaa (17)
Salla (8)
Kaavere (7)
Tammiku (5)
Käru (3)
references naming only the commune
Avanduse v. (123)
Kissa (28)
Rohu (28)
Hirla (5)
Nadalama (5)
Sirevere (5)
Sootiigi (3)
references naming only the commune
Võivere v. (74)
Paasvere v. (70)
Laekvere (7)
Rahkla (6)
Hanguse (2)
Klemsi (2)
Paasvere (2)
Moora (1)
references naming only the commune
Määri v. (44)
Moora v. (43)
Porkuni v. (39)
Tammiku v. (39)
Liigvalla v. (34)
Rakke (11)
Edru (8)
references naming only the commune
Muuga v. (33)
Vägeva v. (32)
Rohu v. (27)
Käru v. (25)
Venevere v. (14)
Savilepa (1)
references naming only the commune
Piibe v. (12)
Simuna (12)
Selli v. (10)
Rakke v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (9 villages, 39 records)
Seli (25)
Vägeva (4)
Irla (2)
Kurtna (2)
Luusika (2)
Avanduse (1)
Muuga (1)
Suur-Tammiku (1)
Venevere (1)
Peetsu (14)
Selli algk (4)
Lassinurme (1)
Liivaku (1)
Metsküla (1)
Saarismäe (1)
Koila as. (15)
Selli as. (1)
Tammiku as. (1)
Selli m. (3)
Paasvere m. (2)
Rakke al. (5)
Poems with no finer place recorded (445)

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.