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The project creates new perspectives to the wide corpus of Estonian–Karelian–Ingrian–Finnish oral poetry called runo-song, regilaul, and kalevalaic poetry, and new analytical tools for complex linguistic materials, also suitable for other kinds of versatile verbal arts in small or poetic languages. We combine a thorough knowledge of historical data—currently in two countries and four digital corpora—to wide-ranging theoretical discussions and innovative methodological solutions, searching for new ways to conduct computational humanistic research in tight interdisciplinary interaction. Taking into account some disregarded materials and features, we search new perspectives on local poetic cultures, intertextuality, historical continuums and Finnic mythology. This consortium of the Finnish Literature Society and University of Helsinki works in close collaboration with the Estonian Folklore Archives at the Estonian Literary Museum.

2020

2024