Vaivara

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.

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 843 poems collected in this place, 568 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 275 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); m. = mõis (manor); as. = asundus (settlement). 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.

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.

• vene saapad jalassa (H III 1, 18/22 (1)) — parallel in Haljala
• parsilta pajatusvaipa (E 40972/3 (3)) — parallel in Haljala
• tule isä tunne poiga (H III 1, 18/22 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• alta hammaste ilada (E 40979/80 (10)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• lendis linna uulitsale (E 16860/1 (8)) — parallel in Jõhvi
• kündsin tüki kündsin teise (E 16860 (7)) — parallel in Jõhvi
• ema lehmad umbe jäägu (E 20904/7) — parallel in Kadrina
• enesel olid enne püksid (E 16860/1 (8)) — parallel in Kadrina
• saatsin saksad saaremaale (H IV 4, 11/2 (4)) — parallel in Ambla
• pisikesi piinatakse (H II 1, 97 (139)) — parallel in Ambla