Abstract Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (Old Poems of the Finnish People) is a collection of
nearly 90,000 oral folk poems written down between 1564 and the early 20th century. It is …

The article focuses on the relationship of language and metre in case of oral poetry, more
exactly, to what extent and through which processes the changes in language have induced …

This article represents a first step in the corpus-based study of metric variation in Finnic
runosong, a poetic tradition shared by several Finnic peoples and documented extensively …

Variation is a core feature of folklore that plays a part in configuring the processes of folkloric
communication, transmission and creativity. Computational analysis of large folklore …

The aim of this paper is to get an overview of the lament metrics in Seto oral song tradition,
which belongs to the southern border area of the Finnic song tradition, and the placement …

The article explores the individual differences of rhythmic variation in traditional sung oral
poetry. The analysed group of ritual songs is part of the Seto singing culture–a subtradition …

Inexploring the role of women in the UNESCO-recognized singing practices of Europe, one
would be remiss to omit the traditions of the Seto people. This paper provides an …

The aim of this article is to compare Estonian burial-related runosongs (regilaul) to
archaeological information. I introduce the runosong as a potential source of information …

Ei ole just keeruline jõuda tõdemuseni, et meie käsutuses olev arheoloogiline materjal on
väga väike osa mineviku terviklikust kultuurist. Gavin Lucas nimetab niisugust olukorda …

This chapter focuses on the processes of creating emblems of national culture on the basis
of folk culture and how selectivity is informed by content. For this purpose, three groups of …