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Corpus Dashboard

What is this page?

The Corpus Dashboard is your starting point for exploring the RunoVerse collection. It provides a bird’s-eye view of 292K Finnic runosong poems across the four source corpora, with quick links to every research tool in the system.

Hero statistics

The eight cards at the top summarise the corpus scope: total poems, unique lemmas, verse lines, word tokens, treasure legends, ATU tale types, dictionary headwords, and the number of explorer pages available.

Charts and visualisations

Discover section

Six highlight cards present notable facts — shared vocabulary, cognate pairs, the rarest grammatical category, substitution relationships, dictionary coverage, and verse similarity scope.

Research question guide

Not sure where to begin? The question cards suggest common research paths (e.g. comparing traditions, exploring emotions, studying poetic form) and link directly to the relevant explorer pages.

Explorer grid

A visual overview of roughly 290,000 Finnic runosong poems spanning four centuries — the largest digitized collection of Finnic runosong, with 440K lemmas, 4.3M verse lines, and AI-powered annotations across the Finnic runosong corpora.

Collection Timeline (1800s–1970s)

Corpus Composition

Top Semantic Domains

Semantic Annotation Sources

339,259 wordforms annotated across 52 categories from 3 merged systems

Grammatical Profile — Top 15 Categories

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Collection decades and the largest grammatical categories

Visual overview of the RunoVerse corpus — roughly 290,000 poems, 439,746 lemmas and 4.3 million verse lines from the Finnic runosong corpora, spanning four centuries.

DecadePoemsEstonian poemsFinnish poemsLeading collection places
1800–18091031390Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Kuhmo, Sangaste
1810–18197390739Juva, Etelä-Savo, Kiuruvesi
1820–18291,239621,177Pielisjärvi, Kesälahti, Vuokkiniemi
1830–18394,49694,487Etelä-Karjala, Vuokkiniemi, Uhtua
1840–184913,3207513,245Ilomantsi, Sakkola, Toksova
1850–18596,594356,559Narvusi, Vuole, Soikkola
1860–18691,535747788Halliste, Karksi, Põlva
1870–18798,4436,2502,193Setumaa, Kolga-Jaani, Räpina
1880–188938,53521,26917,266Narvusi, Soikkola, Jõhvi
1890–189942,50527,69714,808Lempaala, Haljala, Kuusalu
1900–190918,7886,57012,218Narvusi, Uusikirkko Vpl., Liissilä
1910–191934,1459,28824,857Uskela, Kuusalu, Alatornio
1920–192919,87511,0608,815Setumaa, Kittilä, Hargla
1930–193964,26216,23348,029Setumaa, Narvusi, Saarijärvi
1940–19499,7101,1328,578Soutjärvi, Suistamo, Kivennapa
1950–19599,019139,006Kivennapa, Leppävirta, Lumivaara
1960–196910,448010,448Metsäpirtti, Ranua, Tyrvää
1970–197968068Rääkkylä, Rovaniemi, Vesilahti
CategoryWordformsEstonianFinnishBoth
compound183,25784,03971,49611,467
dialectal144,70613,973105,88622,934
plural129,81125,97472,63428,162
partitive93,83926,11246,47617,901
past78,16617,47244,11714,878
illative77,20014,27346,14415,063
dialect75,31317,87037,99217,521
noun61,14322,00228,6786,579
genitive56,6969,16137,2298,750
elative50,28213,32424,96510,411
adessive47,7328,74828,2009,551
archaic47,6777,76629,6729,284
allative43,77110,84721,43910,231
inessive42,7398,48724,6198,745
suffix39,5964,00628,6906,150

This is a static summary — the full, searchable dataset is in the interactive explorer above.