RunoVerse

Tori

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems1,024
Verses22,036
Distinct words16,961
Collection years1877–1939
CollectorsMihkel, Tilk, Ostrov
Coordinates58.4217, 24.8276

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
mede32
tanavas10
tädipoeg12
sinder9
piale29
vikerkaarti8
puksin9
rohutipsu6
kammitsas8
sander9
tantsitasin9
onipoeg9
oksendada6
tõrvaskanti6
külaõed8
vigasega5
sinipilvede12
siss12
rapi7
roosioksa7

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,024 poems collected in this place, 330 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 694 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); l. = linn (town). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Tori v. (115)
Aesoo (23)
Riisa (17)
Kose-Mõisniku (10)
Oore (8)
Levi (3)
Jõesuu-Päästala (2)
Päästala (2)
Muraka (1)
Taali (1)
Tohera (1)
references naming only the commune
Sindi v. (79)
Taali v. (48)
Pustuski (16)
Raba (3)
Juhasselja (1)
Kildema (1)
Pustaski (1)
references naming only the commune
Paikuse v. (19)
Tammuru (1)
references naming only the commune
Tammiste v. (11)
Are v. (7)
Murru (7)
Suigu v. (6)
Vene (2)
references naming only the commune
Sauga v. (1)
Kõdu (1)
Võlla v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 20 records)
Suigu (17)
Uru (3)
Sindi vabrik (16)
Kitsapaiga (3)
Kaseküla (2)
Ooreküla (1)
Sindi ms (1)
Taali as. (6)
Pustuski as. (1)
Taali m. (3)
Sindi m. (1)
Sindi al. (5)
Sindi l. (4)
Poems with no finer place recorded (694)

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.