“…For example, some of the folklore material told by Karelian Rom August Herman Berg -collections which included magic traditions, fairy tales, proverbs and songs -ended up in the most significant publication of Finnish folklore, "the ancient poems of the Finnish people" -i.e. the Finnish runic kalevalametric poems (Blomster and Mikkola 2017). Furthermore, although the official folklore collecting process broadly ignored Roma, there were, alongside Arthur Thesleff, others who were active in the field of Roma folklore in Finland: such as prison school teacher and Lutheran minister Adam Lindh (a non-Roma, born 1843), Karelian Rom Herman Hagert, as well as the founder of Gypsy Mission, Oskari Jalkio (1882-1952, first Anders Oskar Storbacka, later on Oskar Johnsson and, since 1922.…”