RunoVerse

Vocabulary Richness Atlas

This map shows where the runosong oral tradition had the most diverse vocabulary. Larger, darker circles = richer vocabulary.

Metrics

Shannon Entropy: Information-theoretic measure of word distribution diversity. Higher = more diverse vocabulary with more even word usage.

Vocabulary Size: Number of unique words (types) attested at each place.

Type-Token Ratio (TTR): Unique words / total words. Higher = more varied vocabulary per text length. Note: TTR decreases with corpus size, so compare within similar-sized collections.

Evenness: Entropy / max possible entropy. Measures how evenly vocabulary is distributed (vs. dominated by few words).