#Saarepiiga (Saarepiiga)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Laagna
In common parlance #Saaremaa or island girl: #piga is a dated term for girl, (serving-)maid in #Swedish, although this one was probably the #IsleMaiden that #Kalevipoeg, ever the gentleman, frightened into drowning herself in Canto IV.
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#Kangelaste (Kangelased [pl.])
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Heroes, one suspects, of the #SovietRevolution... (Sing.: #Kangelane). #SovietOccupation renaming (1979-1995) of #Saarepiiga puiestee.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
if #Saaremaa was the home of #Saarepiiga, and if #Hiisi was related to #Hiiumaa (see #Hiiu), then a coalescence of the ur-legend into its current dramatis personae may have occurred some 800-odd years ago (very ‘odd’, please see big question mark hanging over this) around a then-powerful tribe
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