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Oma ema ja võõrasema ootavad koju

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

In English: Mother and stepmother await at home (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underMurelaulud (songs of sorrow) › Vaeslaps
Poems287
Verses8,740
Collection places76
Collected1860s to 1930s
CollectorsMihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Karl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Oskar Philipp Kallas · August Sildnik · Peeter Penna · Julius Aleksander Rehberg (Reepärg) · Karl Viljak · Jaan Tammemägi · Hans Siimer · Jaan Sossi

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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 209, VK IV 409, VK V 312, VK VII 285, VK VIII 258, VK IX 183, VK X 313, ERlA 1635, EKL I–III; Oma ja võõrasema ootavad koju – ERlV V 131; Oma memm ja võõras memm – VK II 138; Teutüdruku kaebdus – VK I 87.

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 16 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1860s3
1870s15
1880s102
1890s87
1900s21
1910s23
1920s13
1930s9
year not recorded14

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
Oma ja võõrasema ootavad koju141
Võõrasema ootab koju57
Oma ja võõrasema ootab koju15
Vara vaeslapseks13
Vara vaeseks9
Liigsööja7
Võõrasema ja oma ema ootavad koju6
Oma ja võõrasema ootavad kodu6
Suur sööja5
Oma ema ootab koju5
Võõrasema ootab kodu5
Oma ema ja võõrasema äratus4

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. Oma ema - võõras ema koju ootamas (Own mother — stepmother waiting at home)
  2. Perenaine ootab koju (The Housewife Waits at Home)
  3. Oma ema ja võõrasema (Own mother and stepmother)
  4. Oma ema ootab koju (Own Mother Waits at Home)
  5. Liigsööja (Glutton)
  6. Oma ja võõrasema (Own mother and stepmother)
  7. Peremees ootab koju (The master waits at home)
  8. Oma ja võõrasema ootavad kodu (Mother and stepmother await at home)
  9. Suur sööja (The Big Eater)
  10. Liigasööja (The Glutton)
  11. Oma eit ja võõras ema ootavad koju (Own wife and mother-in-law wait at home)
  12. Oma ema - võõras ema (Own mother, stepmother)
  13. Oma ema ja võõrasema votavad kuju (Own mother and stepmother take form)
  14. Oma ja võerasema ootab koju (Own Mother and Stepmother Waiting at Home)
  15. Annab süüa - haugutab (Gives food, then barks)
  16. Paljusööja (The big eater)
  17. Ema ootab koju (Mother waits at home)
  18. Sauna kütmine haavade vihtlemiseks (Heating the sauna to steam wounds)
  19. Võõras ema ja oma ema (Stepmother and own mother)
  20. Amm ootab koju (Nurse waiting to go home)Filed on the same poems: Külasse viija

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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.