Editing Kalevala (section)

=== Finnish language ===
[[File:Kalevala 1887 (Finnish Literature Society, 3rd ed.).jpg|thumb|Finland's national epic "The Kalevala", 3rd edition (1887, published by the Finnish Literature Society)]]
The first version of Lönnrot's compilation was entitled ''Kalewala, taikka Wanhoja Karjalan Runoja Suomen Kansan muinoisista ajoista'' ("The Kalevala, or old Karelian poems about ancient times of the Finnish people"), also known as the ''Old Kalevala''. It was published in two volumes in 1835–1836. The ''Old Kalevala'' consisted of 12,078 verses making up a total of thirty-two poems.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201002031239|title=Doria.fi archive of the ''Old Kalevala'' volume 1|access-date=23 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe201002031240|title=Doria.fi archive of the ''Old Kalevala'' volume 2|access-date=23 August 2010}}</ref>

Even after the publication of the ''Old Kalevala'' Lönnrot continued to collect new material for several years. He later integrated this additional material, with significantly edited existing material, into a second version, the ''Kalevala''. This ''New Kalevala'', published in 1849, contains fifty poems, with a number of plot differences compared with the first version, and is the standard text of the ''Kalevala'' read and translated to this day. (Published as: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Toimituksia. 14 Osa. KALEVALA.)

The word ''Kalevala'' rarely appears in the original folk songs. The first appearance of the word in folk songs was recorded in April 1836.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dbgw.finlit.fi/skvr/teksti.php?id=skvr01111580|title=SKVR I2. 1158. Lönnrot Mehil. 1836, huhtik.|access-date=31 August 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718172521/http://dbgw.finlit.fi/skvr/teksti.php?id=skvr01111580|archive-date=18 July 2011}}</ref> Lönnrot chose it as the title for his project sometime at the end of 1834,<ref name="Juminkeko 6"/><ref name="Kalevala Lipas">Matti Kuusi and Pertti Anttonen. "Kalevala Lipas" ''Finnish Literary Society, 1985''.</ref> but his choice was not random. The name "Kalev" appears in Finnic and Baltic folklore in many locations, and the ''[[Kalevipoeg|Sons of Kalev]]'' are known throughout Finnish and Estonian folklore.<ref name="Laugaste1990"/>

Lönnrot produced ''Lyhennetty laitos'', an abridged version of the Kalevala, in 1862. It was intended for use in schools. It retains all 50 poems from the 1849 version, but omits more than half of the verses.