Elias Lönnrot, one of the principal collectors of Finnish folk poetry and composer of the "Kalevala", went to some lengths to interpret Pohjola as a real region, considering whether its inhabitants might be Saami or Finns, and precisely where areas such as Luotela/Luode ('North-West region'), Pimentola ('region of darkness'), Sariola, and Untamola/Uni ('region of sleep') might be; many other scholars followed in the same vein.