Vigala

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	1,666
Verses	28,509
Distinct words	21,432
Collection years	1840–1938
Collectors	Mihkel, Madis, Tõnis
Coordinates	58.7045, 24.3411

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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
eede	27
peäle	40
eedekene	15
puula	15
koeu	21
apsapsalla	6
kalajärved	9
küsitlema	22
põllal	28
eedeke	9
peältä	9
teene	25
mede	30
laulukoolis	17
uie	25
paelu	30
seisamas	7
lääbe	6
kartke	17
enni	8

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,666 poems collected in this place, 730 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 936 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.

Velise v. (190)

Mäliste (9)

references naming only the commune

Nurtu v. (166)

Päärdu v. (153)

Kurevere (53)

references naming only the commune

Vigala v. (124)

Kesu (38)

ERA II 7, 136 (14) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 136 (15) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 137 (1 ) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 137 (2) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 137/8 (3) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 138 (4) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 138/9 (5) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 44 (113) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 442/3 (104) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 443 (105) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 443 (106) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 443 (107) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 443 (108) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 444 (112) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 444 (114) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 444 (115) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 444/5 (117) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 445 (118) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 51 (1) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 51/2 (2) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 53 (4) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 54 (5) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 54 (5a) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 54/5 (6) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 55/6 (7) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 56 (8) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 56 (9) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 56/60 (10) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 61/3 (11) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 63 (12) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 63/5 (13) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 65/6 (15) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 68 (20) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 68/70 (21) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 71 (22) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 78 (1) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 79 (3) — Tänavotsa t.
ERA II 7, 79 (4) — Tänavotsa t.

Idse-Kausi (28)

Paljasmaa (12)

ERA II 17, 318/20 (199)
ERA II 17, 332 (208) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 333/5 (209) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 335 (210) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 336 (212) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 337 (214) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 337 (215) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 755/6 — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 802 (2) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 802 (3) — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 804/5 — Viibuse t.
ERA II 17, 805 — Viibuse t.

Naravere (3)

ERA II 17, 374 (256) — Ööbi t.
ERA II 17, 377 (260) — Ööbi t.
ERA II 17, 377/8 (262) — Tiitsu t.

Sääla (2)

Sepa (1)

ERA II 17, 318/20 (199)

Tõnumaa (1)

EÜS IX 658 (61)

Vanamõisa (1)

ERA II 17, 344 (225) — Mardi t.

references naming only the commune

Vana-Vigala v. (1)

Tiduvere (1)

ERA II 32, 245/7 (2) — Rõõmu t.

Villages with no commune on the record (4 villages, 47 records)

Nõlva (21)

Jässi (18)

H II 2, 117 (195) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 117 (196) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 117/8 (197) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 118 (198) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 118 (199) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 119 (200) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 119 (201) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 120 (202) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 120 (203) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 121 (204) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 121 (205) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 121 (206) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 122 (207) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 122 (208) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 122 (209) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 122 (210) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 123 (211) — Soopa t.
H II 2, 123 (212) — Soopa t.

Jädivere (7)

Tamma (1)

ERA II 171, 453/4 — Soone t.

Valgu (17)

Torgu (16)

Rääsküla (5)

Kadaka (1)

E, StK 5, 20/1 4 (1)

Kaelase (1)

E, StK 5, 20/1 4 (1)

Vigala as. (19)

Päärdu m. (15)

Vana-Vigala m. (2)

Audmeste t. (5)

Paiba t. (5)

Poems with no finer place recorded (936)

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.

arvake naesed agarad (EKS 50, 65 (50)) — parallel in Pärnu-Jaagupi
mõistke mõistke õed ja ellad (H II 54, 299/300 (2)) — parallel in Pärnu-Jaagupi
niitis kaare niitis kaksi (EKS 50, 145/7 (97)) — parallel in Haljala
neiukene noorukene (EKS 50, 13/5 (12)) — parallel in Haljala
mul oli rikas risti isa (E A 39 (66)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
üle viie viinaköögi (H III 23, 849 (5)) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
eit läks taadiga magama (H II 47, 257/8 (10)) — parallel in Kuusalu
alla mina panin haavalehti (H II 17, 356/8 (54)) — parallel in Kuusalu
arukask oli ajumees (H II 47, 214/5 (3)) — parallel in Tõstamaa
pühapäev jõi püksid jalast (H II 47, 258/9 (11)) — parallel in Tõstamaa