Tallinn

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

Distinctive vocabulary

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

Places the songs were collected in

Of the 803 poems collected in this place, 5 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 798 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.

• teine kallis kaskemetsa (H III 3, 312 (6)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• pajatelen pardi viisil (ERA II 114, 296/7 (48)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• varjul ma veed vedasin (H III 3, 320/1 (18)) — parallel in Haljala
• teele minna maale saada (H II 58, 799 (46)) — parallel in Haljala
• vald ei kiitnud valjaida (H II 58, 792/3 (35)) — parallel in Ambla
• sada versta saksamaada (H II 58, 802 (56)) — parallel in Ambla
• 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
• lehe laia lendama (E 18335/7 (1)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• karjalaudad kaunikesta (E 42469/70 (2)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani