Viljandi l.

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 616 poems collected in this place, 210 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 406 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). 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.

• suust ma söödan suhkurida (E 14114/5) — parallel in Viljandi
• sõtsikene linukene (E 14111/3) — parallel in Viljandi
• otsas juuakse õluta (H III 7, 92/4 (48)) — parallel in Paistu
• teeveered villendama (ERA I 4, 314 (5)) — parallel in Paistu
• ollin kui uba ilusa (Leoke 4, 297) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• siis ei saa külä magada (Leoke 4, 327) — parallel in Kolga-Jaani
• viisi ma musta vesile (ERA II 32, 37/41 (7)) — parallel in Halliste
• musta mulle ja rumale (ERA II 32, 37/41 (7)) — parallel in Halliste
• mulle tulla mulle olla (E 14114/5) — parallel in Karksi
• sõrm ei kanna sõrmusida (E 14111/3) — parallel in Karksi