Language and poetic metre in regilaul (runo song)

Sarv, Mari

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“…Helen Kõmmus, Taive Särg described by the researchers as the features typical of the whole western Estonian song area, where the changes were more vivid as compared to the northern Estonian area (Rüütel 2012;Sarv 1998). While Hiiumaa regilaul has the most striking features of modernized syllabic-accentual regilaul meter, the next one in this top-list is its neighbor, Saaremaa Island (Sarv 2008: 26, 27, 39).…”

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“…The Swedish population lived in Saaremaa and on the western coast mainly during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries and became assimilated earlier than the Swedes in Hiiumaa. Changes in the formal features of the regilaul meter, such as the dropping of the 8th syllable at the end of a line or ignoring the syllable length, as well as the abundance of transitional songs at different stages of development, are described by the researchers as the features typical of the whole western Estonian song area, where the changes were more vivid as compared to the northern Estonian area (Rüütel 2012;Sarv 1998). While Hiiumaa regilaul has the most striking features of modernized syllabic-accentual regilaul meter, the next one in this top-list is its neighbor, Saaremaa Island (Sarv 2008: 26, 27, 39).…”

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Star Bride Marries a Cook: The Changing Processes in the Oral Singing Tradition and in Folk Song Collecting on the Western Estonian Island of Hiiumaa. II

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2017

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This article is the second part of a longer writing about Hiiumaa older folk songs. Relying on the critical analysis of the folk song collections, which represent the heritage of the second biggest island in Estonia, Hiiumaa 1 , as well as on manifold background information, the character of the singing tradition in the changing social and cultural context is drafted. The first part of the study was published in the previous, 67th volume of Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore. It focused on the history of folk song collecting in Hiiumaa (from 1832 to 1979) and analyzed the representativeness of the collected material. The present article highlights the specific features of Hiiumaa older folk songs, which represent the historical styles of Baltic-Finnic alliterative songs: regilaul, transitional song, and archaic vocal genres. The settlement history of Hiiumaa is studied and related to the putative processes in folk song tradition. The analysis reveals regional western Estonian features and the process of historical changing, especially a pervasive impact of bagpipe music in Hiiumaa songs. The singing tradition has been influenced mainly by cultural contacts with the Estonian and Swedish population on Estonian islands and the western coast, and also by the contacts of local sailors.

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“…Such views hold more or less likewise true for Estonian folk verse which, by tradition, has been the object of folkloristic rather than of literary studies -cf., among others, Jaago (1998) or Sarv (1998Sarv ( , 2011. In this framework, old Estonian folk verse 2 , particularly represented by old Estonian folk songs 3 , often is seen as part of the broader Baltic-Finnic culture, particularly the well-known Kalevala tradition, with its own specifics.…”

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Verse diversification: Frequencies and variations of verse types in <i>Vana kannel</i> and <i>Kalevipoeg</i>

Grzybek

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Abstract:The present study concentrates on specific linguistic aspects in traditional Estonian poetic texts. Focusing on the verse structure of the traditional folk song of Vana kannel and the individually edited and authored epic poem Kalevipoeg, different aspects of the length of verse lines, of the words included in these verses, and of the relation between verse and word length shall be analyzed, aiming to study verse variability in detail. Given there are specific rules of verse and word length organization, as well as of regular relations between them, sequences of words with different length, resulting in different verse types, are focused. Theoretical and empirical evidence is provided that, in addition to existing regularities, verse variability, too, follows specific rules which can be modelled in terms of a diversificational process. IntroductionIn attempting to achieve answers as to the question of verse type diversification in the traditional Estonian epic poems Vana kannel and Kalevipoeg, the present contribution will start with some introductory remarks concerning the general framework of Estonian (folk) verse, before verse length is studied in detail: analyzing the frequency with which words of a given length occur, it will be shown that the frequency distribution in the two texts differs essentially from that known from prose texts, but that this variation can in turn be systematically explained and modelled. Subsequent to a preliminary analysis of the dependence of word length on verse length, the central issue of word length sequences will be dealt with in detail: given that a given verse line may Volkslieder (1935), a number of different methodological approaches will be presented, including verse type coverage, verse type spectrum, and verse type frequency distribution. In this respect, it is important to emphasize that all phenomena will be dealt with not only within a descriptive framework; rather, theoretical models will be presented, which prove all phenomena under study to be organized regularly, i.e., in a law-like manner.Before starting with the concrete analyses, it seems reasonable, however, to briefly sketch the general background of the two texts chosen.

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Language and poetic metre in regilaul (runo song)

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Verse diversification: Frequencies and variations of verse types in <i>Vana kannel</i> and <i>Kalevipoeg</i>

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