Versification: Metrics in Practice

Frog, PhD, Docent, is a folklorist at the University of Helsinki who has worked extensively with the formal dynamics of poetics and language in oral-traditional systems and how these operate as resources in meaningmaking. He is responsible for the Academy of Finland project “Mythology, Verbal Art and Authority in Social Impact” (2016–2022) and leader of the Kone Foundation project “Materiality, Verbal Art, Mythic Knowledge and the Lived Environment (ASME)” (2021–2025). He has published over a hundred articles and edited numerous collections.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5967-6281

Satu Grünthal, PhD, Docent in Finnish literature, is a University Lecturer in Finnish language and literature education at the University of Helsinki. Her elds of interest and research include poetry, literary history, reading literacy and literature education. She is editor or co-editor of several research anthologies and textbooks and has also taught Finnish literature at several European universities.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6962-7782

Kati Kallio, PhD, Docent, is an Academy Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society and the University of Helsinki, specialising in historical oral poetry in Kalevala meter, performance and oral–literary interactions. She leads, with Professor Eetu Mäkelä, the FILTER consortium, which is developing computational means to explore the Karelian–Ingrian–Finnish–Estonian corpus of oral poetry.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-1409

Jarkko Niemi, PhD, University Lecturer and Docent, has learned from ethnomusicology, cultural studies, anthropology, linguistics, folkloristics and the historical sciences. He has established long-term cooperative relationships with representatives of the indigenous cultures of the Russian north. His recent research projects are as follows: “Song traditions of the Selkup Samoyeds: textual corpus of the verse-form language and metrical structural analysis” (Kone Foundation, 2019–2020); “Song and singing as cultural communication” (2011–2013, Academy of Finland); “Studies in musical ethnography of the Uralic indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia” (2009–2014, Academy of Finland).

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-2632