Viisi (Viis)
Looks like a loan word from French vis, but derived from MLG wise, meaning (as well as mode, fashion, way, manner…, think ‘likewise’) melody, tune or air, which, next to Lauliku, it is. Note too that viis:viie means 5.
Vikerkaare (Vikerkaar)
Rainbow.
Vikerlase (Vikerlane)
Estonian viking. Vikerlased (Vikings), was the first Estonian opera to be written, premièred in Tartu’s Vanamuise theatre on 8th Sept. 1928. Renamed (1979-1995) as Kuramaa during the Soviet occupation. And the point of that was?... Odd intruder to the magico-mythological group perhaps influenced by its alphabetical predecessor Varraku. Part of a magico-mythological group. See Vilisuu.
Vilde E.
(Eduard Vilde, 1865-1933)
Prolific writer (33 volumes of novels, stories, plays, travelogues and humorous pieces), considered the first modern European in Estonia, and acclaimed as one of its greatest writers. See Piimamehe. A lifelong moderate socialist, Wilde spent three weeks on Ellis Island in 1911 while the Americans sniffed his credentials. There is a sculpture of him sitting next to his namealike Oscar Wilde outside the former Wilde printing house, now pub, in Vallikraavi (moat, counterscarp) in Tartu. See also Mahtra.