Vändra

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 1,545 poems collected in this place, 657 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 888 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); al. = alevik (small borough). 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.

• minu naine noorukene (E 10955/6 (5)) — parallel in Haljala
• niitsin kaare niitsin kaksi (E 6281) — parallel in Haljala
• oh sa rumal poega noori (EKmS 4° 4, 741/2 (7)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• kui saab kurja kus siis panna (E 8870/1 (84)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• paistan palju maksan palju (E 85214 (4)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• laulamaie luulemaie (H I 4, 620 (2)) — parallel in Kuusalu
• jumal aga hoidku olemasta (H II 20, 611/2 (8)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• kes saab joodiku mehele (H II 20, 611/2 (8)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
• sisaliku silma peale (EKmS 4° 2, 780 (96)) — parallel in Ambla
• hästi hästi meie mehed (EKmS 4° 2, 751/2 (30)) — parallel in Ambla