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Virumaa

Runosong collection place · Estonian tradition (ERAB corpus)

TraditionEstonian (ERAB corpus)
Poems44
Verses930
Distinct words1,807
Collection years1889–1931
CollectorsK. Tanilov · August Michelson
Coordinates59.2520, 26.8313

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Distinctive vocabulary

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

WordOccurrences
väenetud2
ilusamale2
siilindid1
ninakaida1
nuusutelen1
kahevahelta1
sinamasta1
kajamasta1
päevapääsukesi1
hallaleeri1
kirjuspää1
pojasse1
ussiuru1
mõisamöldrid1
armsamada1
asukohta1
tõistrepere1
hõljujaida1
kümneida1
hõrssi1

Places the songs were collected in

Of the 44 poems collected in this place, 3 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 41 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. All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Põhja-Eesti (2)
Alutaguse (1)
Poems with no finer place recorded (41)

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.