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Kust laulud saadud

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

In English: Where the songs come from (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underLaulud laulust (songs about singing) › Laulust ja laulikust
Poems555
Verses13,920
Collection places92
Collected1860s to 1940s
CollectorsKarl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Karl Viljak · Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) · Peeter Penna · Jüri Välbe · Artur Martin · Hans Siimer · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Richard Viidalepp (Viidebaum) · Oskar Philipp Kallas

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The archive’s description

Written by the editors of the ERAB type index and quoted as it stands, in Estonian.

ERlA 59 Esineb kolmes põhiredaktsioonis: A. «Laulud tööl õpitud» esineb Mulgimaal ja Kesk-Eestis, kusjuures eP on laulud õpitud kangast kududes, eL — laudateed käies, Kesk-Eestis segunevad mõlemad n.-ö. alaredaktsioonid; B «Pulmades laulud õppinud» on tuttav eP; C. «Laulud sain luige

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 32 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1860s3
1870s22
1880s88
1890s122
1900s67
1910s112
1920s78
1930s23
1940s2
year not recorded38

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
Kust laulud398
Laulu võim149
Arg laulik40
Kust laul õpitud37
Küla jääb kuulama21
Suude sulg21
Kus laul õpitud18
Lauliku lapsepõlv14
Lauliku soost14
Palju sõnu14
Lauliku sõim13
Kui hakkan laulma13

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. Laulu võim (Power of song)
  2. Laulud lutsu suust (Songs from the burbot's mouth)
  3. Laulud tööl õpitud (Songs learned at work)
  4. Küla jääb kuulama (The Village Stops to Listen)
  5. Lood lutsu suust (Tales from the Burbot's Mouth)
  6. Pulmades laulikuks saanud (Become a Wedding Singer)
  7. Kui hakkan laulma (When I begin to sing)
  8. Laulad tööl õpitud (Songs learned at work)
  9. Lauliku soost (Singer's lineage)
  10. Pulmades laulikuks õppinud (Learned to Sing at Weddings)
  11. Laulud tööst õpitud (Songs learned at work)
  12. Lood sain lutsu suust (Tales from the burbot's mouth)
  13. Laulud pulmades saadud (Songs Received at Weddings)
  14. Laulan küla kohal (I sing over the village)
  15. Küla kuulab (The village listens)
  16. Suu laulab, süda muretseb (The mouth sings, the heart grieves)
  17. Viiakse Virumaale (Taken to Virumaa)
  18. Pulmas laulikuks õppinud (Learned to sing at weddings)
  19. Küla ütel (The Village Said)
  20. Kust laulud (Where the songs come from)

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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.