Editing Kalevala (section)

====Lönnrot's field trips====
[[Image:Lonnrot4.jpg|thumb|200px|A caricature of Elias Lönnrot by A. W. Linsen: "Unus homo nobis currendo restituit rem" – "One man saved everything for us by running".]]

In total, Lönnrot made eleven field trips in search of poetry. His first trip was made in 1828 after his graduation from Turku University, but it was not until 1831 and his second field trip that the real work began. By that time he had already published three articles entitled ''Kantele'' and had significant notes to build upon. This second trip was not very successful and he was called back to Helsinki to attend to victims of the [[Second cholera pandemic]].<ref name="Juminkeko 2">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_1.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 2|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130554/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_1.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref>

The third field trip was much more successful and led Elias Lönnrot to Viena in [[east Karelia]] where he visited the town of Akonlahti, which proved most successful. This trip yielded over 3,000 verses and copious notes.<ref name="Juminkeko 3">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_2.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 3|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130735/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_2.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref> In 1833, Lönnrot moved to Kajaani where he was to spend the next 20 years as the district health officer for the region, living in the Hövelö croft located near the [[Oulujärvi|Lake Oulujärvi]] in the [[Paltaniemi]] village, spending his spare time searching for poems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kainuunsanomat.fi/artikkeli/nakokulma-elias-lonnrotin-hovelon-aika-196185427/|title=Näkökulma: Elias Lönnrotin Hövelön aika|first=Esko|last=Piippo|work=[[Kainuun Sanomat]]|date=28 February 2021|access-date=1 October 2022|language=fi|archive-date=1 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221001143932/https://www.kainuunsanomat.fi/artikkeli/nakokulma-elias-lonnrotin-hovelon-aika-196185427/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kainuunsanomat.fi/artikkeli/kotiseutuna-kajaani-maanjaristys-tuhosi-ensimmaisen-kirkon-paltaniemella-kirkkoaholla-on-toiminut-erikoinen-elaintarha-197176727/|title=Kotiseutuna Kajaani: Maanjäristys tuhosi ensimmäisen kirkon Paltaniemellä – Kirkkoaholla on toiminut erikoinen eläintarha|first=Tiina|last=Suutari|work=[[Kainuun Sanomat]]|date=16 March 2021|access-date=1 October 2022|language=fi|archive-date=7 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207015719/https://www.kainuunsanomat.fi/artikkeli/kotiseutuna-kajaani-maanjaristys-tuhosi-ensimmaisen-kirkon-paltaniemella-kirkkoaholla-on-toiminut-erikoinen-elaintarha-197176727/}}</ref> His fourth field trip was undertaken in conjunction with his work as a doctor; a 10-day jaunt into Viena. This trip resulted in 49 poems and almost 3,000 new lines of verse. It was during this trip that Lönnrot formulated the idea that the poems might represent a wider continuity, when poem entities were performed to him along with comments in normal speech connecting them.<ref name="Juminkeko 12">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_3.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 4|access-date=20 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130752/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_3.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Helsingfors Morgenblad 1">{{cite web|url=http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/showPage.html?conversationId=4&action=entryPage&id=393243&pageFrame_currPage=4|title=Letter to J L Runeberg.|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722151040/http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/showPage.html?conversationId=4&action=entryPage&id=393243&pageFrame_currPage=4|archive-date=22 July 2011}}</ref>

On the fifth field trip, Lönnrot met [[Arhippa Perttunen]] who, over two days of continuous recitation, provided him with some 4,000 verses for the ''Kalevala''. He also met a singer called Matiska in the hamlet of Lonkka on the Russian side of the border. Although this singer had a somewhat poor memory, he did help to fill in many gaps in the work Lönnrot had already catalogued. This trip resulted in the discovery of almost 300 poems at just over 13,000 verses.<ref name="Juminkeko 4">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_4.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 5|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130809/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_4.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref>

In the autumn of 1834, Lönnrot had written the vast majority of the work needed for what was to become the ''Old Kalevala''; all that was required was to tie up some narrative loose ends and complete the work. His sixth field trip took him into Kuhmo, a municipality in Kainuu to the south of Viena. There he collected over 4,000 verses and completed the first draft of his work. He wrote the foreword and published in February of the following year.<ref name="Juminkeko 5">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_5.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 6|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130814/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_5.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref>

With the ''Old Kalevala'' well into its first publication run, Lönnrot decided to continue collecting poems to supplement his existing work and to understand the culture more completely. The seventh field trip took him on a long winding path through the southern and eastern parts of the Viena poem singing region. He was delayed significantly in Kuhmo because of bad skiing conditions. By the end of that trip, Lönnrot had collected another 100 poems consisting of over 4,000 verses.<ref name="Juminkeko 6">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_6.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 7|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130848/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_6.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref> Lönnrot made his eighth field trip to the Russian border town of Lapukka where the great singer Arhippa Perttunen had learned his trade. In correspondence he notes that he has written down many new poems but is unclear on the quantity.<ref name="Juminkeko 7">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_7.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 8|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528051206/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_7.html|archive-date=28 May 2011}}</ref>

[[Image:Elias Lönnrot field trips-notable karelia locations-1.png|thumb|right|250px|Notable towns visited by Elias Lönnrot during his 15 years of field trips – both sides then belonged to Russia]]

Elias Lönnrot departed on the first part of his ninth field trip on 16 September 1836. He was granted a 14-month leave of absence and a sum of travelling expenses from the [[Finnish Literary Society]]. His funds came with some stipulations: he must travel around the Kainuu border regions and then on to the north and finally from Kainuu to the south-east along the border. For the expedition into the north he was accompanied by [[Johan Cajan|Juhana Fredrik Cajan]]. The first part of the trip took Lönnrot all the way to [[Inari, Finland|Inari]] in northern [[Lapland (Finland)|Lapland]].<ref name="Juminkeko 8">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_8.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 9 North|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130926/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_8.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref> The second, southern part of the journey was more successful than the northern part, taking Lönnrot to the town of [[Sortavala]] on [[Lake Ladoga]] then back up through [[Savonia (historical province)|Savo]] and eventually back to Kajaani. Although these trips were long and arduous, they resulted in very little Kalevala material; only 1,000 verses were recovered from the southern half and an unknown quantity from the northern half.<ref name="Juminkeko 9">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_8b.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 9 South|access-date=19 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130943/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_8b.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref>

The tenth field trip is a relative unknown. What is known however, is that Lönnrot intended to gather poems and songs to compile into the upcoming work ''Kanteletar''. He was accompanied by his friend C. H. Ståhlberg for the majority of the trip. During that journey the pair met [[Mateli Magdalena Kuivalatar]] in the small border town of [[Ilomantsi]]. Kuivalatar was very important to the development of the ''Kanteletar''.<ref name="Juminkeko 10">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_9.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 11|access-date=20 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615130959/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_9.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref> The eleventh documented field trip was another undertaken in conjunction with his medical work. During the first part of the trip, Lönnrot returned to Akonlahti in Russian Karelia, where he gathered 80 poems and a total of 800 verses. The rest of the trip suffers from poor documentation.<ref name="Juminkeko 11">{{cite web|url=http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_10.html|title=Elias Lönnrot in Kainuu – Field trip 11|access-date=20 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615131135/http://www.juminkeko.fi/lonnrot/en/aihe_3_10.html|archive-date=15 June 2011}}</ref>