Varbla

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	643
Verses	17,384
Distinct words	14,340
Collection years	1888–1937
Collectors	Mihkel, Ostrov, Kallas
Coordinates	58.3962, 23.7966

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Word	Occurrences
koeu	33
ati	25
punapööri	9
kostsi	25
langukesed	55
küsitleda	14
läksi	42
uied	22
kauda	27
nied	32
mõistsi	16
koeuje	10
valetate	11
atikene	11
löidsi	8
õrsilt	12
ies	21
mule	21
ohke	11
õrsil	12

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 643 poems collected in this place, 508 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 135 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). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Saulepi v. (106)

Mälli (3)

ERA II 127, 204 (1) — Põlma t.
ERA II 127, 205/6 (2) — Põlma t.
ERA II 127, 207 (3) — Põlma t.

Uue-Varbla Rannaküla (1)

ERA II 127, 236/44 (1) — Roomu t.

Vana-Varbla Rannaküla (1)

ERA II 127, 359 (9)

references naming only the commune

Vaiste v. (87)

Vaiste (60)

references naming only the commune

H II 17, 613 (14) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 614 (15) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 614 (16) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 614 (20) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 615 (17) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 616 (18) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 616 (19) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 617/8 (21) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 618/9 (22) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 620 (23) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 621/2 (24) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 622/3 (25) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 623 (26) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 623/4 (27) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 624 (28) — Tedrema t.
H II 17, 625/6 (29) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 626/7 (30) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 627/8 (31) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 628/9 (32) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 629 (33) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 629/30 (34) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 630/2 (35) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 632 (36) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 633 (37) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 634 (38) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 634/6 (39) — Lepiku t.
H II 17, 636 (40) — Lepiku t.

Varbla v. (67)

Rädi (22)

Kidise (17)

Tohu (3)

references naming only the commune

Paadremaa v. (63)

Korju (4)

references naming only the commune

Vana-Varbla v. (53)

Saulepa v. (48)

Pallatu (28)

Kulli (18)

Palata (1)

E 393/4

references naming only the commune

E, StK 35, 52 (1)

Paatsalu v. (22)

Piiu (16)

Mereäärse (4)

references naming only the commune

Uue-Varbla v. (16)

H II 2, 642 (796) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 642/4 (797) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 644 (798) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 644/5 (799) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 645 (800) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 646 (801) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 647 (802) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 648 (803) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 648/50 (804) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 650 (805) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 651 (806) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 651 (807) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 652 (808) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 652 (809) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 652/3 (810) — Nurga t.
H II 2, 653/4 (811) — Nurga t.

Kehtna v. (1)

Muru (1)

ERA II 6, 667 (15)

Vaistu v. (1)

H II 2, 605 (758)

Villages with no commune on the record (7 villages, 76 records)

Tõusi (34)

Allika (17)

Mõtsu (17)

Paadrema (4)

Täpsi (2)

Sookalda (1)

ERA II 127, 100 (25)

Tuhu (1)

ERA II 79, 215/21 (4)

Kilgimetsa (18)

Helmküla (17)

Orassaare (14)

Talsi (11)

Uuetoa (11)

Vaistu seek (4)

Meliküla (2)

Rannaküla (2)

Paadrema as. (16)

Vana-Varbla as. (14)

Suure-Varbla as. (4)

Mõtsu as. (2)

Saulepa m. (29)

Poems with no finer place recorded (135)

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.

küsitleda kuulatleda (H II 2, 616 (774)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
meie tahme küsitleda (H II 2, 616 (774)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
hale meel ei annud tõusta (H I 1, 543/4 (1)) — parallel in Hanila
tõuse üles jaanikene (ERA II 11, 16/21 (1)) — parallel in Hanila
arvage mu arvamesi (E 393/4) — parallel in Karuse
mõistkem minu mõistatusi (E 393/4) — parallel in Karuse
kui on meie meres vetta (H I 1, 543/4 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
lähme merda pühkimaie (H II 17, 656/7 (56)) — parallel in Kuusalu
pane mind parsile magama (EÜS IV 2024/5 (56)) — parallel in Haljala
kõige pikem kõige pienem (H II 2, 545/7 (700)) — parallel in Haljala