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Photo: Klaus von Matt

 

Photo: Klaus von Matt

 

Field Trip II

On his second field trip Lönnrot´s intention was to go to Viena Karelia, to the area where he knew that the folk poetry flourished. The trip, for which he had received a grant from the Finnish Literature Society, had sadly however to be postponed because the National Board of Medicine called upon him, like all physicians out of duty, to come to Helsinki to fight against the cholera epidemic spreading toward Finland.

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