RunoVerse

Vastseliina

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems623
Verses20,953
Distinct words17,434
Collection years1826–1940
CollectorsJaan, Sandra, Fluss
Coordinates57.7262, 27.3119

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
iks242
oll119
lausi55
meelestani49
lätsi126
mano58
vello49
inne66
vele59
umma53
poolestani32
um55
minno63
imä63
varra57
velekene50
läts79
kotoh36
pallo47
koh34

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 623 poems collected in this place, 275 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 348 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.

Vastseliina v. (113)
Raudoja (11)
Mauri (6)
Tallikese (4)
Kunnu (3)
references naming only the commune
Misso v. (54)
Kõrla (10)
Põrsste (9)
Lemmatsi (6)
Napi (4)
Kure (3)
Mokra (1)
Tiilike (1)
Tilige (1)
references naming only the commune
Orava v. (29)
Kahkva (13)
Hanikase (4)
Marga (2)
Suuremetsa (1)
references naming only the commune
Loosi v. (13)
Tilga (1)
references naming only the commune
Haanja v. (8)
Panikovitsi v. (4)
Saaluse v. (4)
Lasva v. (3)
Lalli (1)
references naming only the commune
Panikovitsa v. (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (7 villages, 26 records)
Saarnita (10)
Kääpa (5)
Viitka (5)
Saarda (2)
Tarissaare (2)
Lasva-Pässa (1)
Tsäpsi (1)
Tsäpli (4)
Hanikasa (1)
Vastseliina as. (17)
Loosi as. (1)
Vastseliina m. (16)

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.