RunoVerse

Valjala

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems80
Verses1,263
Distinct words2,431
Collection years1878–1937
CollectorsMihkel, Kolm, Valtin
Coordinates58.3534, 22.7795

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
nuuskimas2
müüriksel2
uksealusid2
ilveseks3
köik3
emm3
kiikusid2
säel3
kadariku2
enneaegaseks2
pesast2
ülal2
videriku2
tulad2
heitajes1
kiunujaida1
vastutasin1
neidudes1
hakkajad1
hõikajaida1

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 80 poems collected in this place, 22 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 58 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.

Kogula v. (9)
Kõnnu (6)
Türgi (2)
references naming only the commune
Vana-Löve v. (4)
Vana-Lõve v. (2)
Kagula v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (2 villages, 5 records)
Hariste (4)
Tõnija (1)
Haeska kõrts (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (58)

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.