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Tule mulle!

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

In English: Come to me! (love appeal) (a translation; the archive names the type in Estonian only)

Filed underLaulud noorrahva elust (songs of young people's lives) › Kosjad
Poems988
Verses28,973
Collection places112
Collected1840s to 1930s
CollectorsKarl Voldemar Rosenstrauch · Mihkel (Tori) Ostrov · Karl Viljak · Artur Martin · Oskar Philipp Kallas · Joosep Hurt · Helene Maasen-Varik · Jaan Tammemägi · Gustav Seen

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The archive’s description

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

Tule mulle!: VK III 143, VK IX 343, VK XI 294, ERlA 2331. Vrd Mis viga tulla – VK IV 278, VK V 63; Mis sul viga mulle tulla – ERlA 2333; Miks sa tõrgud meele tulles – VK II 89.

ERlA 2331, väga populaarne, ülemaaliselt tuntud laul; ka siin on tegemist tüüprühmaga nagu eelmise laulu puhul

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 52 more places

When it was collected

DecadePoems
1840s1
1860s10
1870s74
1880s315
1890s323
1900s63
1910s75
1920s35
1930s44
year not recorded48

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
Petis peiu49
Neiunälg31
Miks ei mullu tulnud21
Meri õue all21
Kaevul kosija20
Kosjahobu söötmine19
Tore neiu13
Hea ja halb mees12
Oleks see mees minu!9
Loomad tööl9
Neiud lähevad ära9
Kosjasõit9

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. Miks ei mullu tulnud (Why didn't you come last year)
  2. Petis peiu (The deceitful groom)
  3. Miks sa tõrgud mulle tulles (Why Do You Resist When I Come)
  4. Ait nooriku magada (Bride sleeping in the granary)
  5. Kolm aita (Three Barns)
  6. Mis sa tõrgud mulle tulles (Why do you resist my coming)
  7. Mis sa tõrgud meile tulles (Why Do You Resist Coming to Us?)
  8. Hea ja halb mees (Good and Bad Husband)
  9. Miks mullu ei tulnud (Why Didn't You Come Last Year)
  10. Oleks mullu tulnud (Had you come last year)
  11. Imelik ait (Strange granary)
  12. Oleks sa mullu mulle tulnud (Had you come to me last year)
  13. Miks sa mullu ei tulnud (Why didn't you come last year)
  14. Miks ei mulle tulnud (Why didn't you come to me)
  15. Hea pilliga, kuri piitsaga (Good with the pipe, cruel with the whip)
  16. Soo sild (The bog bridge)
  17. Hää ja kuri mees (Good and cruel husband)
  18. Mis viga meile tulla (What harm in coming to us)
  19. Tule malle (Come, Malle)
  20. Kolmed kingad (Three Pairs of Shoes)

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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.