Tilluke teomees

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

In English: The little corvée worker (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.

Tilluke teomees: VK VI 220, VK X 284, VK XI 174, ERlA 1357; Tilluke teopoiss – VK VIII 182, VK IX 137. ERlA: 1357. Tilluke teomees: tuntud ülemaaliselt. Puhtalt esineb harva, tavaliselt ühenduses lauluga 1203 («Kus istun — seal itken»).

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 (13)
• Kodavere (5)
• Koeru (5)
• Lüganuse (5)
• Maarja-Magdaleena (5)
• Halliste (4)
• Kolga-Jaani (4)
• Suure-Jaani (4)
• Urvaste (4)
• Viljandi (4)
• Peetri (3)
• Räpina (3)
• Rõuge (3)
• Saarde (3)
• Vaivara (3)
• Ambla (2)
• Järva-Jaani (2)
• Järva-Madise (2)
• Kanepi (2)
• Laiuse (2)
• Nõo (2)
• Põltsamaa (2)
• Tallinn (2)
• Torma (2)
• Audru (1)
• Kadrina (1)
• Kambja (1)
• Karksi (1)
• Kullamaa (1)
• Kuressaare l. (1)
• Narva l. (1)
• Otepää (1)
• Palamuse (1)
• Pilistvere (1)
• Puhja (1)
• Pärnu-Jaagupi (1)
• Rapla (1)
• Sangaste (1)
• Setumaa (1)
• Simuna (1)
• Tartu (1)
• Tarvastu (1)
• Vastseliina (1)
• Vigala (1)
• Viru-Jaagupi (1)
• Viru-Nigula (1)
• Väike-Maarja (1)
• Võnnu (1)
• Võru l. (1)
• välismaa (1)
• Äksi (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
• Ollin veike mehike EÜS II 422 (158) — Kodavere
• Ise mina olen mehikene E 14001 (3) — Koeru
• Olin mina orjas; käisin karjas ERA II 125, 336 (22) — Lüganuse
• Oh mina veikene mehikene E A 749/50 — Maarja-Magdaleena
• Ollin mina tillukene meheke ERA II 124, 209/10 (8) — Halliste
• Ol´lin mina veike mehikene, E 56335/7 (17) — Kolga-Jaani
• Ollin orjas, käisin karjas, ERA II 177, 364/5 (11) — Suure-Jaani
• Väikene, väikene mehekene H III 11, 401/3 (42) — Urvaste
• Vaeva vaeva vaeva jussi H, Peet 334/5 (334) — Viljandi

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. Tiik (The Pond)
2. Kus istun - iken (Where I Must Always Sit)
3. Teopoiss (Serf boy)
4. Kus istun - seal itken (Where I sit, there I weep)
5. Hobune varastatud (The stolen horse)
6. Kubjas peksab magajat (Overseer beats the sleeping worker)
7. Kus istun - itken (Where I Sit, I Weep)
8. Hobune varastet (Stolen horse)
9. Kubjas ja teomees (The Overseer and the Serf)
10. Varastatud hobune (Stolen horse)
11. Nutust järv (Lake of tears)
12. Rõngu sild (Rõngu Bridge)
13. Kupja peksja (Beating the Overseer)
14. Kalajärv (The fish lake)
15. Kuhu istun - tiigike (Where I sit — the little pond)
16. Pisar veereb (A tear rolls)Filed on the same poems: Suu laulab
17. Kubjas tuleb peksma (The Overseer Comes to Beat)
18. Hollandi sulane (The dairyman's farmhand)
19. Vara vaeseks (Orphaned Young)
20. Vara vaeslapseks (Too soon an orphan)

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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.