Place Name Index
Every place name on the collection-place pages
All 803 collection places that have their own pages, plus every finer place those pages list — villages, communes, farms, manors, settlements, coastal areas and more, shown as written on the archive records. Where the villages map pinned a place under a different name — the form printed on an old map sheet, or its modern successor — that name follows after an equals sign, and searching for it finds the row. Click a name to open its collection-place page with that place’s own list of songs unfolded; click the collection place to open the page at the whole finer-places section.
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What this index contains
Every name comes from the address line of an archive record. The counts say how many digitised records name the place — they reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung there. A commune’s count includes the songs of its villages.
Names are kept as the records spell them, so one place can appear under several spellings, and the abbreviations are the archive’s own unit words: v. = vald (commune); t. = talu (farm); m. = mõis (manor); as. = asundus (settlement); al. = alevik (small borough); khk. = kihelkond (parish); mk. = maakond (county); l. = linn (town). A name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself, and a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from. A name followed by = another name is one the villages map could only pin by matching it to a different spelling — the form printed on an old map sheet, or the settlement’s modern name; the dot’s popup on the map names the source.
“Collection place” rows are the 803 places with their own RunoVerse pages; all other rows are the finer places those pages list.