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Simuna

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,311
Verses20,775
Distinct words17,523
Collection years1870–1943
CollectorsKarl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Hindrek Böckler (Pöckler) · Hans Siimer
Coordinates59.0073, 26.5051

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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
kojuje35
kosteleksi16
kuulin40
kostin27
laalemaie20
ämmakene22
majaje14
kedreluud7
palveida15
käässa14
raisakondid6
luulemaie22
kündedessa7
lahutanud10
kaendelassa14
arulla9
röökijad4
seab11
seessa18
piinatie9

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,311 poems collected in this place, 866 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. 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.

Salla v. (242)
Lasinurme (56)
Selli (43)
Mõisamaa (17)
Salla (8)
Kaavere (7)
Tammiku (7)
Käru (3)
Tammiku-Veskimetsa (1)
Tammiku as. (3)
Selli m. (3)
references naming only the commune
Avanduse v. (124)
Kissa (28)
Rohu (28)
Also recorded at Koeru (29).
Hirla (6)
Nadalama (5)
Sirevere (5)
Sootiigi (3)
references naming only the commune
Paasvere v. (79)
Laekvere (7)
Rahkla (6)
Muuga (5)
Hanguse (2)
Klemsi (2)
Paasvere (2)
Salutaguse (2)
Moora (1)
Metsküla (1)
Saarismäe (1)
Paasvere m. (2)
references naming only the commune
Võivere v. (74)
Määri v. (44)
Moora v. (43)
Porkuni v. (39)
Tammiku v. (39)
Also recorded at Väike-Maarja (39).
Liigvalla v. (34)
Rakke (11)
Also recorded at Koeru (26).
Edru (8)
Also recorded at Koeru (5).
Selli algk (4)
Rakke al. (5)
Also recorded at Koeru (4).
references naming only the commune
Muuga v. (33)
Vägeva v. (32)
Rohu v. (27)
Käru v. (25)
Peetsu (14)
references naming only the commune
Venevere v. (16)
Mare (2)
Savilepa (1)
references naming only the commune
Piibe v. (12)
Also recorded at Koeru (1).
Simuna (12)
Selli v. (10)
Rakke v. (1)
Selli as. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (8 villages, 39 records)
Seli (25)
Vägeva (4)
Avanduse (2)
Irla (2)
Kurtna (2)
Luusika (2)
Suur-Tammiku (1)
Venevere (1)
Lassinurme (1)
Liivaku (1)
Koila as. (15)
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.