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Historical Finnic oral poetry – called runolaulu, regilaul, or Kalevalaic poetry – makes a versatile corpus across several related languages, representing numerous genres from epic and charms to lyric, ritual poetry, lullabies, and so forth. Despite the first comparative efforts and collaborations already at the end of the nineteenth century, the l...
This demonstration presents the user interface Runoregi used for exploring text similarity inlarge collections of Finnic oral poetry. We showcase the different views of the interface and their applications in folkloristic research.
Variation is a core feature of folklore that plays a part in configuring the processes of folkloric communication, transmission and creativity. Computational analysis of large folklore collections offers new outlooks on the study of variation. The article explores the nature of folkloric variation on the basis of folk song and fairy tale text corpo...
Public archives are repositories of human memory and history, which collect, preserve, and provide access to the records and documents creating a bridge between the past, present, and future. Archives are dynamic structures that can be interpreted as knowledge hubs, with channels of information flowing in them, activities performed within the “blac...
Historiallisista, Suomen ja Viron kansallisvaltioiden syntyyn liittyvistä syistä johtuen itämerensuomalaista runolaulua (viroksi regilaul) eli niin kutsuttua kalevalamittaista kansanrunoutta on tallennettu, arkistoitu, järjestetty ja digitoitukin poikkeuksellisen paljon. Virolaisessa ERAB-korpuksessa ja suomalaisissa SKVR- ja JR-korpuksissa on täll...
While digital corpora have enabled new perspectives into the variation and continuums of human communication, they often pose problems related to implicit biases of the data and the limited reach of current methods in recognising similarity in linguistically complex data, especially in small languages. The digital corpus of historical Finnic oral p...
Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (Old Poems of the Finnish People) is a collection of nearly 90,000 oral folk poems written down between 1564 and the early 20th century. It is characterized by frequent reoccurrence of similar pieces of text on various levels (from entire poems, through passages to single verses and collocations). However, finding these s...
This article represents a first step in the corpus-based study of metric variation in Finnic runosong, a poetic tradition shared by several Finnic peoples and documented extensively in the 19th and 20th centuries. Runosong metre has generally been assumed to be a syllabic tetrametric trochee with specific rules about the placement of stressed sylla...
The aim of this paper is to get an overview of the lament metrics in Seto oral song tradition, which belongs to the southern border area of the Finnic song tradition, and the placement and historical development of lament metrics in the framework of the whole Seto oral song tradition. In the paper the metrical structures of two main genres of Seto...
In Tackling the Toolkit, we focus on the methodological innovations, challenges, obstacles and even shortcomings associated with applying quantitative methods to poetry specifically and poetics more broadly. Using tools including natural language processing, web ontologies, similarity detection devices and machine learning, our contributors explore...
Artikkel uurib regilaulu teema-analüüsi võimalusi teemade modelleerimise meetodi abil. Meetodi kasutamisel on probleemiks regilaulu keele piirkondlik varieeruvus. Laulutekstide esmane analüüs näitas, et sisukamaid tulemusi annab teema-analüüs ühtlasema keelega kogumite puhul. Lähemaks vaatluseks valitud Hiiumaa, Saaremaa ja Muhu laulude teema-analü...
Plotting Poetry 3. Conference report
The article focuses on the relationship of language and metre in case of oral poetry, more exactly, to what extent and through which processes the changes in language have induced the changes in metre in case of Estonian runosong, a branch of common Finnic poetic-musical tradition. The Estonian language has gone through a series of notable phonolog...
The article aims to analyse, on the example of folkloristics, a researcher’s choices
in studying and documenting culture. The article reveals the contradictions arising
from the dual role of a cultural researcher who, on the one hand, should function
as an independent observer, but on the other hand their work, activities and
knowledge make them a...
Conference on Finnic runo-song tradition
The article gives an overview of the uses and features of parallelism across different genres of Estonian poetic folklore, focusing on the genres in which grammatical parallelism forms an important means for structuring texts. Relying on her own previous research on runosongs and short forms of folklore (Sarv 1999, 2000, 2003), the results of the s...
When writing about traditional Finnic (also called Balto-Finnic) oral poetry, everyone who is embedded in its long history of research encounters the same problem of what term to use for it. Several partly overlapping terms are in current use. The different terms are sometimes inconsistent, especially across different languages, contexts, approache...
The Estonian version of the paper "The Ball Game Motif in Gilgamesh Tradition and International Folklore." Published in Akadeemia 2015/12.
Teesid: Parallelism on rahvaluules väga levinud nähtus ning ka regilauludes regulaarselt ja mitmekesiselt kasutatav tekstiloome printsiip. Olgugi et varasemad uurijad on kirjeldanud ja analüüsinud regilaulu parallelismi mitmeid aspekte, ei tule senises kirjanduses esile vajadus eristada regilaulu mitmekesise parallelismikasutuse seast kanoonilist,...
This article presents the results of the metrical analysis of Estonian regilaul. The results demonstrate that the meter of oral poetry is subject to variation and should not be treated as a static and petrified phenomenon. The choice of methodology for the analysis of meter in a metrically variable oral tradition is also discussed. Oral poetries ha...
Most of the Estonian Folklore Archives' (EFA) 1 85 year history has passed by in the analogue era. Nowadays the incoming materials are mainly digital. In our paper we will discuss the archives' biography and how we have managed the situation where the archival data have become more and more digital. When EFA was established, it already contained se...
This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open access venues, there are many positive aspects of Science Advances: its broad STEM scope, its interest in cross-disciplinary research, and the offering of fe...
In this paper, a method of hierarchical clustering and a selection of fuzzy classification algorithms are applied successively to the data set that contains measured characteristics of folk verses collected from 104 historical parishes of Estonia. The aim of the study is to detect the groups of parishes that are similar in terms of folk verse chara...
Estonian folk lullabies belong to the common heritage of Baltic-Finnic runosong tradition. The article surveys the older layer of lullaby recordings that are kept in the Estonian Folk Archive, in order to throw light on the essence of Estonian lullabies. The history of collecting lullabies, their content, form, performance and use will be discussed...
In the current article I am trying to find out why two layers of Estonian song-tradition – one forming part of common Baltic-Finnic heritage and the other belonging together with European rhymed folk-song and ballad tradition – are so remarkably different in several aspects. I have, therefore, placed them into broader, European context, exploring t...
By the phrase "alliterative haze" I mean the obscuring, changing, and extending of the conventional denotation of words when they are placed in alliterating combinations. Below, I shall attempt to show how the special way of expression characteristic to parallel constructions in regilaulud (runo songs) disperses the imprecise haze of meaning that a...
K äesoleva artikli eesmärgiks on näidata, millistel asjaoludel on karjala regilaulude põhjal välja selgitatud ja kalevalamõõdule iseloomulikuks peetavad nn kvantiteedireeglid omandanud võtmepositsiooni eesti regi-laulu kirjeldamise kaanonis ning mil määral regilaulu kvantiteedireeglitest lähtuvad meetrikamääratlused on kooskõlas või vastuolus tegel...
