Tallinn

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.

Places the songs were collected in

Of the 742 poems collected in this place, 5 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 737 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. 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.

• rukkireie peksemaie (E 6635/6 (6)) — parallel in Haljala
• varjul ma veed vedasin (H III 3, 320/1 (18)) — parallel in Haljala
• sõida minu neiu õue alla (E 8973/6 (3)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• uhkusest ei hooli ma (H II 16, 516/7 (9)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kui olen teenind teenin veel (H III 3, 304/5 (2)) — parallel in Ambla
• üles kiike kõrgeelle (H III 3, 312 (6)) — parallel in Ambla
• viis kuus seitse (E 52515 (25)) — parallel in Narvusi
• mõla kullane käessa (E 18335/7 (1)) — parallel in Narvusi
• annivakka valmistama (E 18338/9 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• tõuse kirstu kinnitama (E 18338/9 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu