Vihm üle

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

In English: Rain, pass over! (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.

ERlA 155, tuntud rohkem Edela-Eestis. Loitsulaadne laul. Vt. ka tüübid 141, 147, 158, 3201, 3202. Sisaldab ühiseid motiive. Eriti vt. 3201

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.

• Tarvastu (14)
• Sangaste (10)
• Halliste (9)
• Karksi (9)
• Otepää (8)
• Paistu (7)
• Viljandi (7)
• välismaa (7)
• Suure-Jaani (6)
• Helme (5)
• Puhja (5)
• Jõhvi (4)
• Kuusalu (4)
• Kolga-Jaani (3)
• Palamuse (3)
• Tartu (3)
• Vigala (3)
• Ambla (2)
• Kanepi (2)
• Laiuse (2)
• Maarja-Magdaleena (2)
• Peetri (2)
• Rõngu (2)
• Rõuge (2)
• Saarde (2)
• Vaivara (2)
• Viljandi l. (2)
• Väike-Maarja (2)
• Audru (1)
• Haljala (1)
• Järva-Jaani (1)
• Kadrina (1)
• Kambja (1)
• Kihnu (1)
• Kodavere (1)
• Koeru (1)
• Kursi (1)
• Märjamaa (1)
• Paide (1)
• Pärnu (1)
• Põltsamaa (1)
• Põlva (1)
• Pöide (1)
• Rannu (1)
• Räpina (1)
• Setumaa (1)
• Tori (1)
• Torma (1)
• Türi (1)
• Valgamaa (1)
• Viru-Jaagupi (1)
• Vändra (1)
• Võnnu (1)
• Võrumaa (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.

• Üle üle vihmakene E 17269/70 (6) — Tarvastu
• Vihmakene, vellekene EKmS 8° 1, 568 (10) — Sangaste
• Mine üle vihmakene E 18175 (7) — Halliste
• Sel´lu sel´lu ilmake E, StK 15, 124/5 (88) — Karksi
• "Vihmukene, vellekene! H II 44, 513 (18) — Otepää
• Üle üle vihmakene E 19329 (14) — Paistu
• Vihmakene, vellekene E 8575 (6) — Viljandi
• Vii vihma oe, oh, oe, oe, oeoh. H II 45, 316 (3(3)) — välismaa
• Üle hoogu, vihmahoogu, ERM 146, 89/91 (32) — Suure-Jaani
• Vihmakene, vellekene! E 23286 (5) — Helme

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. Üle vihm (Rain passing over)
2. Vihm (Rain Song)
3. Vihm, üle vaeslapsest (Rain, pass over the orphan)
4. Üle vihm vaesest lapsest (Rain over the Poor Child)
5. Vihm võõrale maale (Rain on foreign lands)
6. Vihm mujale maale (Rain to other lands)
7. Karjase kuri põlv (The Shepherd's Hard Lot)
8. Sajaks vihma, saaks magada (Let it rain, so we could sleep)
9. Vihm kaugele (Rain, go away)
10. Saja, vihm! (Rain, o rain!)
11. Palve vihmale (Prayer for rain)
12. Vihm üle vaesest lapsest (Rain over the poor child)
13. Vihm ja vaeslaps (Rain and the Orphan)
14. Vihma ja vaeslaps (Rain and the orphan)
15. Vihm ja vaenelaps (Rain and the orphan)
16. Vihm Virumaale (Rain for Virumaa)
17. Vaenelaps ja vihm (The orphan and the rain)
18. Vihm Venemaale (Rain Over Russia)
19. Ilm udune (Misty weather)
20. Vaenelaps märjana (Orphan soaking wet)

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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.