Editing Kalevala (section)

====Methodology====
[[Image:Inha runonlaulajat.jpg|thumb|right|[[Republic of Karelia|Karelian]] poem singing brothers Poavila and Triihvo Jamanen reciting [[runic song]], Uhtua, 1894.]]

Lönnrot and his contemporaries, e.g. [[Matthias Castrén]], Anders Johan Sjögren,<ref>Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. "The Kalevala or Poems of the Kaleva district" ''Appendix II. (1963)''.</ref>
and [[Daniel Europaeus|David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus]]<ref name="suomi.fi">{{cite web|url=http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/kansalliset_symbolit_ja_juhlat/index.html|access-date=24 August 2010|title=Kansalliset symbolit ja juhlat – Kalevala|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314051635/http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/kansalliset_symbolit_ja_juhlat/index.html|archive-date=14 March 2010}}</ref><ref name="New Kalevala">Elias Lönnrot. "Kalevala" ''Preface to the First edition, (1849)''.</ref> collected most of the poem variants; one poem could easily have countless variants, scattered across rural areas of Karelia and [[Ingria]]. Lönnrot was not really interested in, and rarely wrote down the name of the singer except for some of the more prolific cases. His primary purpose in the region was that of a physician and of an editor, not of a biographer or counsellor. He rarely knew anything in-depth about the singer himself and primarily only catalogued verse that could be relevant or of some use in his work.<ref name="Honko1990">{{cite book|last=Honko |first=Lauri|editor=Lauri Honko |title=Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics: The Kalevala and its Predecessors |date=1990 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-087455-6 |pages=181–230 |chapter=The Kalevela: The Processual View}}</ref>

The student David Emmanuel Daniel Europaeus is credited with discovering and cataloguing the majority of the Kullervo story.<ref name="New Kalevala"/><ref name="Alhoniemi1990">{{cite book |last=Alhoniemi |first=Pirkko |editor=Lauri Honko |title=Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics: The Kalevala and its Predecessors |date=1990 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-087455-6 |pages=231–246 |chapter=The Reception of the Kalevela and Its Impact on the Arts}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Kansalliset symbolit ja juhlat| url=http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/kansalliset_symbolit_ja_juhlat/index.html| access-date=31 August 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314051635/http://www.suomi.fi/suomifi/suomi/tietopaketit/perustietoa_suomesta/kansalliset_symbolit_ja_juhlat/index.html| archive-date=14 March 2010}}</ref>

Of the dozens of poem singers who contributed to the ''Kalevala'', significant ones are:
* [[Arhippa Perttunen]] (1769–1840)
* Juhana Kainulainen
* Matiska
* Ontrei Malinen (1780–1855)
* Vaassila Kieleväinen
* Soava Trohkimainen