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Millal saan omile?

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

In English: When will I return to my own? (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underLaulud abielust (songs about marriage) › Abielunaise põli
Poems106
Verses2,153
Collection places46
Collected1870s to 1930s
CollectorsJohannes Grauberg (1935. a.-st Raidla) · Julius Aleksander Rehberg (Reepärg) · Gustav Vilberg (Vilbaste) · Karl Viljak · Hans Lohk · Hermann Länts · Arnold Simson · Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Peeter Penna · Jaan Seimann

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The archive’s description

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

VK XI 385, VK III 10, VK VI 999, VK VIII 670, VK X 234; Kunas läen mina omele? – VK II 95; Millal lähen mina isale? – VK IX 464, ERlA 3115: Põhja-Eestis ja Mulgimaal tuntud, noteeritud rohkesti. Stabiilne tüüp, liitumisi on vähe ja needki juhuslikud. Siit on lähtunud arendus «Tule, talv,

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.

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1870s8
1880s22
1890s37
1900s2
1910s8
1920s7
1930s13
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
Millal saan isale52
Kodu käimas19
Noorik kodu käimas8
Millal lähen isale5
Tunnen tuima neiu2
Reesõit uue lumega2
Kodu kaugel2
Sugu kaugel2
Tall taeva all2

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. Noorik kodu käimas (Young bride visits home)
  2. Kodu käimas (Going Home)
  3. Millal lään omile (When will I go home)
  4. Millal lään emale (when I go to mother)
  5. Miks ei võtnud naist (Why He Didn't Take a Wife)
  6. Kui kaasa teaks, ostaks orjusest (If my beloved knew, he'd buy me out of bondage)
  7. Kunas kosja minna (When to go courting)
  8. Millal sünnib kosja minna (When Is It Time to Go Courting)
  9. Sõnumisaat koju (Sending word home)
  10. Kodus käimas (Visiting home)
  11. Noorik igatseb isa kodu (The young bride longs for her father's home)
  12. Kusagil kasvab kaasa (Somewhere a bride is growing up)
  13. Noorik isakodus käimas (Young wife visiting her father's home)
  14. Millal lään isale? (When shall I go to father?)
  15. Talvel kosja (Winter courting)
  16. Kus istun - itken (Where I Sit, I Weep)
  17. Kaasa kaugel (The future spouse far away)
  18. Kodu kaugel (Home is far away)
  19. Talve ootamine (Waiting for winter)
  20. Millal paras kosja aeg (When is the right time to court)

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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.