Valjala

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 92 poems collected in this place, 31 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 61 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). 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.

• las see ilves isuda (H II 18, 520 (8)) — parallel in Pöide
• isa mind sõimas ilveseks (ERA II 116, 289 (1)) — parallel in Pöide
• kassi käpp oli verine (E 24985/6) — parallel in Mustjala
• puupakk oli jalgas (E 24985/6) — parallel in Mustjala
• vanamees raius kuuse ää (ERA II 116, 289/91 (2)) — parallel in Muhu
• jättis jäljed meie maale (ERA II 94, 307/8 (115)) — parallel in Muhu
• hiire ots oli higine (E 24985/6) — parallel in Kuusalu
• pange ratsud rakkedesse (E 23945) — parallel in Kuusalu
• ätsed katsid peenra ää (ERA II 116, 289/91 (2)) — parallel in Kaarma
• kus see peenar jälle sai (ERA II 116, 289/91 (2)) — parallel in Kaarma