Recommended — balanced by verse count with collection diversity. Longer poems rank higher.
Most unique — poems unlike anything else in the corpus, based on vocabulary, structure, and cross-lingual comparison (uniqueness percentile).
Most traditional — poems at the heart of widely shared traditions, with the most variants across the corpus.
Most parallel — ranked by consecutive parallelism score (only poems with computed scores shown).
Random — seeded shuffle, shareable via URL.
About themes
Theme categories (Incantations, Wedding, Lyric, etc.) are derived from song type classifications. The majority of poems are "Unclassified" because they lack song type data or fall under a catch-all "other" category.
About emotion words
Emotion labels are based on matching verse vocabulary against a curated wordform lexicon of 63,000 emotion words across 38 families. A poem is labeled when 3 or more wordforms from the same emotion family appear. This indicates vocabulary presence, not semantic analysis.
About these results
This page lets you browse 292,000 runosong poems from three corpora: SKVR (Finnish), JR (Finnish), and ERAB (Estonian). Song type classifications cover about 55% of poems, with the Finnish SKVR corpus having the best coverage (99%). The JR corpus has no song type data.
These poems reflect historical oral traditions and may contain archaic language and themes.
Poem Profile
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Poem Reader Help
This reader shows AI-generated word-level annotations for runosong texts. The annotations are approximate and intended as a reading aid, not for scholarly citation without manual review.
Layers: Toggle annotation rows using the buttons above the poem. Standard orthography and English glosses are shown by default.
Search: Use the search field in the header to jump to poems by archive reference (e.g., “H II 1, 389”) or search for words/lemmas to find all poems containing them.
Click any word to see its full entry including translations, morphology, etymology, and dictionary definitions.
Related Poems: The sidebar shows poems similar to the current one, found by five algorithms: TF-IDF (lemma), Jaccard (wordform), Translation-pivot (cross-lingual), Verse-aggregated RRF, and Character Bigram. Click any result to navigate to that poem.
Verse Similarity: Click the expand arrow (↓) on any verse line to see its most similar verses from across the corpus, with algorithm badges (J/T/Tr/C) and cross-lingual indicators.
Word Detail: Click any word to see its full entry including translations, morphology, etymology, dictionary definitions, and dialectal synonyms. Links to the main lexicon for deeper exploration.
Comparison: Compare two poems side by side with shared vocabulary highlighting. Available via the compare button in the Related Poems panel.
Keyboard: Use arrow keys to move between words, Enter to open in lexicon, Esc to close panels. Press / to search, ? for help, 1–5 to toggle layers (incl. alliteration), [ / ] for prev/next poem, { / } for browsing history back/forward.