By
January of 1833, Lönnrot had moved to Kajaani. He was to settle in Kainuu
for two decades, which afforded him a base for all the poetry-collecting
journeys he would make. Lönnrot's fourth field trip was the most important
for the creation of the Kalevala, because it was then that he came upon
the idea of compiling an epic from the folk poetry he had collected. His
route through Kainuu on the field trip is well recorded: it was his work
again that forced him to travel, but he decided to include a ten-day visit
to Viena to collect poetry.
In November of the same year, Lönnrot sent an
account of his trip to J.L. Runeberg, who published it the following
year in Helsingfors Morgenblad, a paper of which he was the editor.
After
his successful poetry-collecting trip to the village of Vuokkiniemi, Lönnrot
went on via Akonlahti to Kuhmo, where he finished his account
of the trip at the Juortana house.
Lönnrot's fourth field trip yielded 49 poems, comprising 2.900 lines.
By
January of 1833, Lönnrot had moved to Kajaani. He was to settle in Kainuu
for two decades, which afforded him a base for all the poetry-collecting
journeys he would make. Lönnrot's fourth field trip was the most important
for the creation of the Kalevala, because it was then that he came upon
the idea of compiling an epic from the folk poetry he had collected. His
route through Kainuu on the field trip is well recorded: it was his work
again that forced him to travel, but he decided to include a ten-day visit
to Viena to collect poetry.