Thompson Motif Index Explorer

Connecting 46,230 international folklore motifs to Finnic runosong tradition through semantic matching, vocabulary overlap, and culture-area documentation.

What is this?

Data sources

Three matching tiers

How to use

Filters

Scores & confidence

Navigating to poems

URL deep linking

Limitations

Attribution

All Song Type Matches Finnic-Documented High Relevance

By Chapter

By Song Type

Thematic Domain Mapping: RunoVerse Domains ↔ TMI Chapters

RunoVerse Domain	Related TMI Chapters	Thesaurus IDs

Motif data from Trilogy TMI+ATU (Hagedorn, 2022), CC BY-SA 4.0

Song types from SKVR (Finnish Literature Society) and ERAB (Estonian Folklore Archives)
Semantic matching via GloVe (Pennington, Socher & Manning, 2014)
See also: MOMFER (Karsdorp et al. 2015, Meertens Institute)

Tier 1 matches use GloVe-300 semantic similarity between English translations of song type names and TMI motif name keywords. All matches are algorithmic suggestions — validate for your specific use case.