Click a theme to see its geographic distribution. Click a place for details.

What this map shows

Each dot is a runosong collection place, sized and coloured by how many poems of a given theme (wedding, epic, lullaby, …) were recorded there. The goal is to make regional specialisation visible: where are lullabies overrepresented, where do you find the most incantations, which parishes are dominated by lyric vs epic?

How to use

• Click a theme in the left list to colour the map by that theme. The dot size then represents the count of that theme at each place.
• Click a place dot on the map to open its breakdown: theme counts, totals, and a link out to the place page.
• The Top Places list ranks places by the currently selected theme.

Themes

• wedding — bride laments, marriage cycles.
• epic — narrative poems (e.g. Kalevala-type material).
• lyric — emotional/personal reflection.
• lullabies / children — cradle and play songs.
• incantations — charms and magical formulas.
• calendar — seasonal and ritual.
• work / animal / death — labour, herding, lament.

Caveats

Theme tags are drawn from classical catalogue labels and are coarse; any given poem may cross themes. Place counts are raw — no per-corpus normalisation — so heavy collection parishes (e.g. Kuusalu, Setumaa, Ilomantsi) dominate by sheer size.