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This page explores the 7,482 people and institutions who collected the 292,092 Finnic runosong poems in the corpus. Notable collectors include Elias Lönnrot (compiler of the Kalevala), Jakob Hurt (organizer of the great Estonian folklore collection campaign of 1888), and many local folklore enthusiasts.

Full records (collectors with 50+ poems) include distinctive vocabulary computed via TF-IDF — words that appear disproportionately in each collector's material compared to the overall corpus. These often reflect the collector's geographic focus area or topical specialization.

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