Regilaul (pl. regilaulud) - the Estonian academic term for Baltic-Finnic Kalevala metre folksongs, cf. also regivärss "Kalevala metre verse". Usually in articles by Estonian scholars discussing regilaul and regivärss in English, those have been previously referred to as "runo song" and "runo verse" (runo being the Finnish term for Kalevala poem). As the latter as well as the term "Kalevala metre verse" appear one-sidedly connected with only the Finnish tradition and the epic Kalevala, although it applies to the Baltic-Finnic song culture in general, the occasional retaining of the vernacular terminology appears justified.