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What is this page?
The Regional Heritage Profile aggregates multiple data sources into a single view for each collection place. For every place in the corpus you can see runosong statistics (poem, word, and verse counts), the emotional landscape derived from emotion-word analysis, treasure legends recorded at that location, and nearby places with their own heritage data.
Finding a place
Use the dropdown to search by name. Places are sorted by poem count so the richest collection sites appear first. Each entry shows the place name, total poems, and language (ET for Estonian / ERAB, FI for Finnish / SKVR+JR). You can also click "Random place" to explore somewhere unexpected.
The map
The interactive map centers on the selected place (large brown dot) and shows nearby collection sites as smaller dots within a 100 km radius. Click any nearby dot to jump directly to that place's profile.
Statistics
Stat cards show: total poems collected, total words, total verses, average word length (a rough proxy for morphological complexity), and the number of treasure legends on record.
Statistical outliers
Alert boxes highlight statistically unusual patterns for ~20 of 803 places, such as an emotion domain appearing far more than average, or an unusually high concentration of treasure legends (computed via z-score).
Distinctive vocabulary
Top 15 words most distinctive to this place, ranked by TF-IDF score. Each word links to its concordance view filtered to this place.
Collection timeline
Horizontal bars show how many poems were collected here in each decade from 1800 to 1970, with the peak decade highlighted.
Poetic features
Alliteration rate and parallelism score compared to the corpus average (green above, red below). For Finnish places in the top 200, a Kalevala-metre breakdown is also shown. ET and FI metrics come from different methods and may not be directly comparable.
Sample poems
Five randomly selected poems from this place, each linking to the full poem reader. Use the refresh button for a different sample.
Emotional landscape
Horizontal bars show the distribution of emotion domains found in poems from this place. Toggle to Radar view to see this place's emotion profile compared to the corpus average on a spider chart.
Cross-lingual connections
How many cross-lingual verse clusters involve this place, with the top 5 partner places linking to their own profiles. These connections link Estonian and Finnish traditions through shared verse patterns; places with only one language tradition may have none.
Verse clusters
Which of the top 200 verse clusters (recurring formulaic phrases) appear here. Each shows representative text, total members, and local frequency; click one to open its concordance view.
Collectors
The top 5 collectors who recorded poems at this place, with their poem counts and year ranges. Each links to the full collector profile.
Treasure legends
If the place has entries in the treasure legends corpus (Estonian varandusemuistendid), they appear as expandable cards. Only Estonian places have legend data.
Nearby places
Places within 80 km are listed as clickable buttons with their distance. Clicking one loads that place's profile.
Place comparison
Click the Compare button or press C to enter comparison mode. Select a second place to see a side-by-side layout showing stat grids with delta badges, emotion bars for both places with a bilateral delta row, distinctive vocabulary with shared-word highlighting, and top word frequencies. The map shows both places with a dashed distance line.
Most frequent words
Below the TF-IDF distinctive vocabulary, the "Most Frequent Words" panel shows the top 20 wordforms by raw frequency. Dual bars compare local vs. corpus-wide frequency. Press W to toggle between content words (excluding stop words) and all words.
Kinship arcs
Curved arcs on the map connect the selected place to its top 5 cross-lingual partner places (those it shares the most cross-lingual song connections with). Arc width is proportional to connection count. Click a partner dot to navigate to that place.
Data coverage note
Not all sections have data for every place. Larger, well-studied collection sites have richer profiles; smaller or less-studied places may show fewer populated sections — this reflects the historical unevenness of folklore collection, not missing functionality.
Deep linking
The URL updates automatically when you select a place (e.g. ?place=Kuusalu). In comparison mode, both places appear in the URL (e.g. ?place=Kuusalu&compare=Setumaa). You can copy and share these links.
Explore further
Links at the bottom connect to related pages with place-aware URLs where supported.
Regional Heritage Profile
Select a collection place to see its complete folklore heritage: runosong corpus, emotion landscape, treasure legends, and collection history aggregated into a single profile.
Corpus atlas — all collection places
Every place on one map. Pick a variable, then click a dot to open its full profile below.