Viru-Nigula

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

Tradition	Estonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems	1,307
Verses	21,984
Distinct words	20,019
Collection years	1877–1940
Collectors	Hans, Krikmann (Krickmann), Lohk
Coordinates	59.4068, 26.6436

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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
nuttadessa	15
oue	20
kojuje	30
votta	13
kostin	25
toise	11
värbu	13
toine	14
muie	16
soidin	8
müöda	16
miesi	20
ode	10
kunda	9
nuttad	13
kaendelassa	19
puole	13
saaneb	13
vottas	6
peretüttar	11

Villages, communes and other places the songs were collected in

Of the 1,307 poems collected in this place, 798 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 509 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.

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)

references naming only the commune

Kalvi v. (67)

Rannu (49)

Männiku (5)

ERA II 28, 491 (47) — Süvadi t.
ERA II 28, 492/9 (48) — Süvadi t.
ERA II 28, 510 (2) — Süvadi t.
ERA II 28, 510 (3) — Süvadi t.
ERA II 28, 510/1 (4) — Süvadi t.

Atriku (3)

ERA II 28, 399 (1) — Aarike t.
ERA II 28, 425 (53) — Aarike t.
ERA II 28, 426 (56) — Aarike t.

Mahu (1)

E 61078

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)

ERA II 28, 541 (56) — Uulmanni t.

references naming only the commune

Samma v. (18)

Aseri v. (9)

Kunda v. (8)

Sõmeru v. (7)

Kohala v. (2)

Püssi v. (2)

Varude v. (1)

H, Gr. Qu. 100 (1)

Varudi v. (1)

Varudi (1)

H I 1, 34/6

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)

Mäepealt (4)

Ojamäe (4)

Aseri Meriküla (3)

Kabala j (3)

Ojaküla (3)

Andja v (?) (1)

H III 12, 292/3 (2)

Kabala-Suurküla (1)

ERA II 6, 184 (1)

Rannu kõrts (1)

H II 34, 344/5 (56)

Aseri as. (2)

Kabala as. (1)

ERA II 87, 613/4 (4)

Kabala m. (14)

Varudi m. (6)

Kalvi m. (5)

Vasta m. (5)

Koogu m. (4)

Malla m. (1)

EÜS X 2472/3 (62)

Kunda al. (3)

Viru-Nigula al. (1)

ERA II 287, 142/3

Kunda l. (2)

Suurekivi t. (20)

Vuormanni t. (5)

Poems with no finer place recorded (509)

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.

ära sõida sõja iessa (H II 34, 404 (161)) — parallel in Haljala
lähme luojale luole (H II 34, 31 (20)) — parallel in Haljala
sinu suusta kukkub koola (EKmS 4° 1, 208/9 (29)) — parallel in Kuusalu
mis sina sinine laulad (H II 9, 55/6 (1)) — parallel in Kuusalu
oi imeta oi imeta (E 18479) — parallel in Jõhvi
vesi palgid vieretand (AES, MT 59, 5) — parallel in Jõhvi
pisikesi piinatakse (H II 34, 34 (28)) — parallel in Ambla
palju sööma palju jooma (EKmS 4° 1, 132 (203)) — parallel in Ambla
ühte sünnivad südamed (EKmS 4° 1, 145 (225)) — parallel in Kadrina
ühte hääled ühte meeled (EKmS 4° 1, 145 (225)) — parallel in Kadrina