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Joodikust mees

Runosong type in the classification of ERAB, the Estonian Folklore Archives’ runosong database

In English: The drunkard husband (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underLaulud abielust (songs about marriage) › Abielunaise põli
Poems365
Verses8,681
Collection places85
Collected1860s to 1940s
CollectorsMihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Oskar Philipp Kallas · Karl Viljak · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) · Peeter Penna · Gustav Seen · Tamberg, H. · Jakob Weltmann · Julius Aleksander Rehberg (Reepärg)

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Where it was collected

Collection places of the poems, with the number of poems of this type from each. A place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from.

…and 25 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1860s3
1870s16
1880s102
1890s98
1900s29
1910s29
1920s44
1930s34
1940s1
year not recorded9

Example poems

The opening verse of one poem from each of the ten places with the most poems of this type: the first such poem in the archive’s order. Each links to the whole poem. A poem can be filed under several types, so its opening verse may belong to another song.

Other types the same poems are filed under

The archive can file one poem under several types. These are the types most often given to poems of this type, with the number of poems they share.

TypePoems in common
Joodik mees159
Joodikul mehel86
Joodikul49
Joodikule48
Kasvatus asjatu44
Kasvatus asjata32
Joodiku naine12
Joodiku hobune8
Tule mulle!7
Isa- ja mehekodus7
Joodiku nädal5
Endine elu4

Content-based similar types

Several methods each rank the song types whose poems resemble this type's poems; the combined ranking merges their lists. The first 20 are listed here.

  1. Joodikul saab nälga näha (The Drunkard Will Go Hungry)
  2. Asjata kasvatatud - joodikule (Raised in Vain for a Drunkard)
  3. Hoidku joodikule saamast! (Keep the drunkard from getting it)
  4. Hoiatus joodiku mehe eest (Warning against a drunkard husband)
  5. Joodikul (For the drunkard)
  6. Joodikule mehele (Married to a drunkard)
  7. Joodik mees peksab (Drunkard husband beats)
  8. Joodikul pole raha (The Drunkard Has No Money)
  9. Joodikule (Married to a drunkard)
  10. Joodik (The drunkard)
  11. Ära jookse joodikule! (Don't run to the drunkard!)
  12. Joodiku hobune (The Drunkard's Horse)
  13. Viskab sukad sõnnikule (Throws stockings on the manure)
  14. Ära mine joomarile (Don't go to the drunkard)
  15. Joodik joob kõik maha (The drunkard drinks everything away)
  16. Joodik mees (The Drunkard)
  17. Ei ole kõhus kõrrekest (Not a straw in the belly)
  18. Ilus mees - kuri mees (Handsome man, wicked man)
  19. Hoiatus joodiku eest (Warning against a drunkard)
  20. Ära mine joodikule (Don't Marry a Drunkard)

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Sources: the type’s name, filing and description come from the type index of ERAB, the Estonian Folklore Archives’ runosong database; the counts, places, decades and collectors are counted from the poems on RunoVerse.