What are the youths up to? A dive into Finnic oral poetry

Susanna Mett, Senja Emilia Salmi, Sami Tiainen, Jakob Lindström, Jajwalya Karajgikar Abstract: Our project took a look at how young males and females are described in Finnic runosongs in the Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot (SKVR) and Eesti Regilaulude Andmebaas (ERAB) databases. The main obstacle in all stages of our research was the nature of the

Computing Finnic oral poetry

The Finnic-group has been gathering their marbles around various computational methods that could be used in a meaningful way with the corpus of Finnic oral poetry. As expected, it has been quite a challenge and the amount of variation in the corpus is staggering; there are roughly 3 million verses and almost 1 million distinct