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researchers have been inconsistent in their records of Lönnrot's
ninth field trip. Two separate trips have been recorded as a single journey,
probably in this case because the first of these was "doubtless customary
work-related travel in part, which we did not count as a poetry-collecting
trip" (A.R. Niemi). The fourth and sixth field trips were also normal
work-related travel in part. In addition, Kaukonen points out, this work-related
trip yielded 23 poems (350 lines) in Akonlahti alone, whereas Lönnrot's
"official" poetry-collecting trip, that is, the one he undertook
while on leave of absence, produced only 80 poems (800 lines).
Lönnrot wrote the following letter to
Doctor Rabbe on 11 October, when he had returned from his field trip.
An account of the early phase of the "official
trip" has survived.
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