Viljandimaa

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.

Parishes and places filed under Viljandimaa

Of the 476 poems collected under this name, 85 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 391 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: khk. = kihelkond (parish). All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

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.

• näiukesed noorekesed (Veske 2, 221/2) — parallel in Paistu
• siia kurgede koguda (Veske 2, 149) — parallel in Paistu
• võta astu aidateeda (EKmS 8° 2, 505/9 (1)) — parallel in Karksi
• küsitelle mõistatelle (Veske 2, 235/6) — parallel in Karksi
• esi tahab minnä mehele (Veske 2, 193) — parallel in Halliste
• tüdärlaits sa linnukene (Veske 1, 499/500 (241)) — parallel in Halliste
• silitse sealihaga (EKmS 8° 3, 31 (10)) — parallel in Tarvastu
• tee pätsi tee pätsi (EKmS 8° 3, 31 (10)) — parallel in Tarvastu
• kui jääd sa ilma elama (Veske 2, 230/3) — parallel in Helme
• pane aol aia pääle (Veske 2, 230/3) — parallel in Helme