Elias Lönnrotin matkat I: 1828-1839

A compilation of field journals, letters, drafts, and published accounts that traces a series of journeys devoted to collecting oral poetry and local lore. The material mixes day-to-day travel notes, encounters with informants, transcribed folk verses, and linguistic and ethnographic observations, often preserving dialectal phrasing and variant drafts. Each journey is treated as a chapter with appended correspondence and editorial comments, so readers see both the practical difficulties of travel and the evolving methods of collection, as well as the editorial choices made when printed texts and manuscript fragments are combined.