 At the encouragement of his friends, he published them and also his own collection of proverbs "Wanhain suomalaisten tawaliset ja suloiset sananlascut" in 1702.The corpus was geographically emphasised on proverbs found in Satakunta, Southwest Finland and Häme.The book contains over 1,500 proverbs, five times more than the German book of proverbs from 1529.