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Viru-Nigula

Runosong collection place · ERAB corpus, Estonian Folklore Archives

CorpusERAB, Estonian Folklore Archives
Poems1,308
Verses22,028
Distinct words20,039
Collection years1877–1940
CollectorsHans Krikmann (Krickmann) · Hans Lohk · Jakob Valk
Coordinates59.4068, 26.6436

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with poems collected at other places — not the most common words.

WordPoems
nuttadessa15
oue20
kojuje30
votta13
kostin25
toise11
värbu13
toine14
muie16
soidin8
müöda16
miesi20
ode10
kunda9
nuttad13
kaendelassa19
puole13
saaneb13
vottas6
peretüttar11

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,308 poems collected in this place, 798 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 510 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); al. = alevik (small borough); l. = linn (town). 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.

Malla v. (113)
Kutsala (14)
Kutsalu (5)
references naming only the commune
Pada v. (104)
Uljaste (27)
Toomingu (20)
Kabala (17)
Toomika (10)
Samma (8)
Toomiku (4)
Kabala as. (1)
references naming only the commune
Kalvi v. (67)
Rannu (49)
Männiku (5)
Atriku (3)
Mahu (1)
Aseri as. (2)
references naming only the commune
Uhtna v. (63)
Semi (61)
references naming only the commune
Kunda-Malla v. (41)
Kunda (19)
Kuura (18)
Letipää (1)
Mäepealt (4)
references naming only the commune
Samma v. (18)
Aseri v. (9)
Kunda v. (8)
Ojamäe (4)
Ojaküla (3)
Malla m. (1)
Sõmeru v. (7)
Also recorded at Rakvere (114).
Kohala v. (2)
Also recorded at Rakvere (19).
Püssi v. (2)
Varude v. (1)
Varudi v. (1)
Varudi (1)
Villages with no commune on the record (12 villages, 273 records)
Lontova (150)
Aarla (27)
Härjapää (27)
Pada (26)
Võrkla (21)
Letepi (5)
Aseri (4)
Kanguristi (3)
Raudna (3)
Tamme (3)
Nõmmise (2)
Varude (2)
Laheküla (27)
Simunamäe (17)
Mereküla (5)
Aseri Meriküla (3)
Kabala j (3)
Andja v (?) (1)
Kabala-Suurküla (1)
Rannu kõrts (1)
Kabala m. (14)
Varudi m. (6)
Kalvi m. (5)
Vasta m. (5)
Koogu m. (4)
Kunda al. (3)
Viru-Nigula al. (1)
Kunda l. (2)
Suurekivi t. (20)
Vuormanni t. (5)
Poems with no finer place recorded (510)

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.