#Luule

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

8 months ago

Miscellaneous buildings old and new on a rainy day in Kuhlbarsi, Tallinn.

Student hall of residence in Kuhlbarsi, Tallinn.

Modernized apartment building in Kuhlbarsi, Tallinn.

Flagstaff holder in Kuhlbarsi, Tallinn, unusual for its manufacture in two different metals, one rust-free stainless steel, the other... not.

Part responsible for various ‘mythological’ interpretations of #Estonia’s past.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#NotableEstonians #MärkimisväärsedEestlased
#Education #Haridust
#Poetry #Luule
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

11 months ago

(Louis Charles Adelaide de Chamisso,1781-1838), German poet and botanist of #French aristocratic extraction, in his collection #SalasyGomez (title said to be painted on the side of the boulder) named after Sala y Gómez, a tiny (770 m wide) volcanic island 360 km ENE of
#Poetry #Luule
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

11 months ago

it should be named after #Käsu ans (?-1715/1734), one of the earlier poets in the #Estonian vernacular (writer, in fact, of the first surviving poem by an Estonian in Estonian, #Tartu dialect), author of the lament where the town tells its tale of woe,
#Poetry #Luule
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Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

11 months ago

#Lauliku (Laulik)
Poet, bard, singer, often lead singer at weddings, or songbook. Temporarily #Triigi N. (1940-1941
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla #Kivimäe
#Music #Muusika
#Musician #Muusik
#Poetry #Luule

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

#Viisi (Viis)
Looks like a loan word from #French vis, but derived from #MLG wise, meaning (as well as mode, fashion, way, manner…) melody, tune or air, which, next to #Lauliku, it is. Note too that viis:viie means 5.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Pääsküla
#Poetry #Luule
#Songs #Laulud

Simon Hamilton

@tallinnstreets.bsky.social

1 year ago

First named as #Koidula (1926-1959) with whom #Liiv also, shall we say, identified. Briefly named #Tähelennu (1959-1960), shooting-star or space flight, the space race was on, and changed to this in 1960, along with its parallel of #Lauliku, so ‘verse’ it is.
#Poetry #Luule
#Songs #Laulud
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