Iida Heinonen

Iida Heinonen is listed by Open Library as an author born in 1869, and library records for Halikon hakoniskat connect that name with the work’s oral source material. The book was written by Niilo Kallio and presented as having been told by Ida Heinonen, which suggests that her memories and storytelling were central to the finished text.

Project Gutenberg’s notes for Halikon hakoniskat describe Ida Heinonen as a carpenter’s wife from Halikko and say the book draws on her recollections of late-19th-century Finnish rural life. A second volume gives the same 1869 birth year and says she was living in Salo, reinforcing the picture of a local tradition-bearer whose firsthand memories helped preserve regional customs.

Rather than being known for a long standalone bibliography, she appears to be remembered for passing on festive traditions, dialect, and everyday scenes that might otherwise have been lost. That gives her a small but distinctive place in Finnish cultural history.