Nutust järv

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

In English: Lake of tears (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

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The archive’s description

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

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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.

• Jõhvi (14)
• Rõuge (9)
• Halliste (8)
• Koeru (8)
• Setumaa (8)
• Kadrina (6)
• Urvaste (6)
• Kolga-Jaani (5)
• Kuusalu (5)
• Laiuse (5)
• Maarja-Magdaleena (5)
• Peetri (5)
• Räpina (5)
• Tarvastu (5)
• Märjamaa (4)
• Paistu (4)
• Sangaste (4)
• Väike-Maarja (4)
• Haljala (3)
• Järva-Madise (3)
• Karula (3)
• Otepää (3)
• Puhja (3)
• Saarde (3)
• Vaivara (3)
• Viljandi (3)
• Ambla (2)
• Hargla (2)
• Harju-Jaani (2)
• Helme (2)
• Jüri (2)
• Kambja (2)
• Kanepi (2)
• Karksi (2)
• Kodavere (2)
• Lüganuse (2)
• Pilistvere (2)
• Põlva (2)
• Tallinn (2)
• Viljandimaa (2)
• Audru (1)
• Hageri (1)
• Hanila (1)
• Häädemeeste (1)
• Jaani (1)
• Järva-Jaani (1)
• Kihnu (1)
• Kose (1)
• Kullamaa (1)
• Narva l. (1)
• Palamuse (1)
• Pärnu-Jaagupi (1)
• Põltsamaa (1)
• Simuna (1)
• Suure-Jaani (1)
• Tartu (1)
• Türi (1)
• Valga (1)
• Vastseliina (1)
• Vigala (1)

When it was collected

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.

• Olin orjas, käisin karjas ERA II 125, 148 (69) — Jõhvi
• Oli mina vaene väike laits E 14866/7 (9) — Rõuge
• Ollin mina tillukene meheke ERA II 124, 209/10 (8) — Halliste
• Hakkame meie minema EÜS VII 1766/8 (389) — Koeru
• Kõivõkõne, tammõkõnõ, E 44447/50 (1) — Setumaa
• Väikene, väikene olin ma, E 48583 (1) — Kadrina
• Vaene lats ma vaiva vagel ERA II 156, 484/91 (6) — Urvaste
• Ol´lin mina veike mehikene, E 56335/7 (17) — Kolga-Jaani
• Kui akkan mina minema, EÜS VIII 1453/5 (35) — Kuusalu
• Küla mul ütles kuku kuku E 18388 — Laiuse

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.

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. Kus istun - seal itken (Where I sit, there I weep)
2. Kus istun - iken (Where I Must Always Sit)
3. Tiik (The Pond)
4. Tiigike (Little pond)
5. Kuri kabjas (Evil in the hooves)
6. Teopoiss (Serf boy)
7. Tilluke teopoiss (The Tiny Serf Boy)
8. Pisarate veeremine (Tears rolling down)
9. Vara vaeseks (Orphaned Young)
10. Kus istun - itken (Where I Sit, I Weep)
11. Tilluke teomees (The little corvée worker)
12. Kurb laulja (Sad singer)
13. Vara vaeslapseks (Too soon an orphan)
14. Pisarate jõgi (River of tears)
15. Suu laulab, süda muretseb (The mouth sings, the heart grieves)
16. Pisar veereb (A tear rolls)Filed on the same poems: Suu laulab
17. Laul nutu peiteks (Song to hide tears)
18. Kalajärv (The fish lake)
19. Mitu halba ilma peal (So Many Evils in the World)
20. Puu (Tree)

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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.