As we all know, the term viking is a little bit confusing. Most people use it to describe iron age Scandinavians, what is totally wrong. So no, "the Finns" were not vikings in this kind of definition. So when Scandinavians were Swedes, Danes and Norwegians, the Finns were Finns, Tavastians, Barmians, Kvens, Karelians, Lapps and Estonians. And there are huge differences between those tribes, how they lived, behaved etc.. So if we see vikings as raiders on boats from Northern Europe things get different. There are many archeological findings, which can be seen as typical for "vikings". For example the ULFBERTH swords, where todays Finland take the second place in founds after todays Norway. It was a status symbol in viking society, and may originate from Middle Europe (Germany/France). The second view is that people talk about vikings as an ethnic or genetic ancestry which is also wrong. There is no such thing as typical viking DNA. Scientific research has shown that many different ethnic ancestries are included. One Viking skeleton obviously came from Ireland and had typical features of the natives there. Another fact is, that the DNA of the descendants of Rurik shows features that are most typical among todays Finns, so either he was a "Finn" or "Finns" lived on the other side of Ostrobothnia, bevor "the Swedes" went northwards. This also supports a theory called "Kvenland theory". A third view sees vikings as traiders, otherwise the Swedes would not have been real Vikings compared to the mainly raiding Danes and Norwegians. And this is interesting because there is many evidence about trade objects found in Finland also. For example the silver hoard near Mikkeli which includes coins from the middle east at the end of the viking age. Also the whole Austrvegr starts parallel to Finlands coastline. Who controlled the coastline? Who lived there? Wouldn't people join a promising activity such as trading goods, when it's carrying out right in front of their eyes? I doubt it. At the end we don't really know it, but I strongly believe that there will be much more to find out in the future. I mean, why would the warrior of Janakkala for example carry two swords of which one was 200-300 years older and which was clearly a typical viking sword. He must have had a connection to his ancestors and DNA shows, that he was a local man, a Finn. I think after beeing 500 years a part of the Swedish Empire, lots of evidence where carried off, destroyed or were put in the wrong context by the rulers as part of Christianization and ideological agenda to gain control over the native people. A nation without history has no identity. I mean there is also evidence of grave robbing by Swedish elites in former days Finland, so maybe that's also a point. But no hate, lot's of love to our northern brothers and every other one on this planet!

Finns are Finns. It does not matter how other people have seen things and written down their history. We have a language and a culture of our own - thousands of years old.

We need High King for Finland!! Im happy to volunteer :)

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I am interested in any History. My Prays go out to people . I enjoyed this podcast and and the knowledge it brings. Thank You

I heard a story where some Swedish vikings settled in southern Karelia and that way a bunch of people from the Karelian tribes became vikings

Food for thought, not a single viking ship could have passed through the waterways of Karelian isthmus without the blessing of Karelians. Region had notable population, outnumbering viking expeditions in manpower. Also knowledge of the area ahead would have required a local guide.

Rurik the viking has genealogy where the DNA is closest linked to people in modern Ostrobothnian Coast and eastern coast of Sweden. I was reading a study about it and also speculated the name Russia came from the finnish word for Sweden Ruotsi where Rurik probably spoke a mix of Old Finnish and Swedish dialect.

Just a fun language thought.. The word finn comes from norse finnr, which originally meant hunter/gatherers, and referred to the saami people. Many sources from the time called the inhabitants of present day Finland (and also Estonia) "eastern vikings". The term kven is attested, but the usually swedes and geats who travelled eastwards and made runestones (western norse made hardly any stones, for example, zero in Iceland) used the word viking on stones for the raiding and trading amongst themselves, and for those we now call finns and estonians shows they didn't see much more of a difference than they did with their fellow scandinavians.

This is absolutely brilliant. Love the illustrations.

So interesting, wonderful designed and informative again! Recently friends of mine made a trip to Finland and were so impressed, excited and amazed about the trip- just to let you know;) I recommend them to watch your videos:)

I came across your channel some days ago. I find the content entretaining and instructive, and the art style is very cool. You have a very Finnish sense of humour. Jatkakaa samaan malliin ja hyvää päivänjatkoa.

Thanks for sharing 😊

Love your videos ❤️Ancient Finnish warriors are one of my favorites after I read Kalevala. Please make video on Finnish warriors, how they dressed and their favourite weapons.

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Viking Age wasn't a big change to anything. Iron had become common already centuries before, during the Roman Iron Age. There's hundreds of Bronze Age axes and axe molds from the Ural Mountains found in Finland, so trade network was well established to the east along the Russian water ways millenias before the Viking Age. Also all the Baltic Sea region, including the Baltic Peninsula, southern and western Finland, were part of the Baltic Sea bronze trade network. Scandinavian sagas tell that there were kings in Finland, so they in the 12th and 13th century had such idea. But in Scandinavia too, kings were just elected war chiefs. That's what kings of Sweden were too: there was no kingdom like later in the Medieval Age. All the peoples around the Baltic Sea used similar boats and many practiced piracy. The Saarenmaa people (Estonians) were notorious pirates. The biggest Viking Age Norse settlements also got attacked and raided by foreign non-Norse peoples, that includes Sigtuna in Sweden and Hedeby in Denmark, so also Scandinavia suffered the same as other settlements in Europe. Raids were made into Finland also. What comes to religion, many vikings were actually Christians. Scandinavia and also Finland was heavily invaded by Christianity in the late 9th century onward. Christianity came to Finland from Novgorod around 900AD, and hence Christian words in Finnish are loanwords from Novgorodian dialect of that era. Finnic pagan religion had lots in common with other European pagan religions, with the Germanic, Baltic and Slavic peoples. They all had their prime god this male sky god of smithing (thunder, lightning, fire, axe, hammer are related to him), war, agriculture (fertility). Ukko-Ilmarinen is the same god as our neighboring peoples prime sky god was. Why Viking Age is so poppularized, is obviously because of Britain. It fell under repeated waves of migrations and conquests ever snce the Roman power fell. The Irish and Scotts, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and then the Norse. Britain was fragmented and local lords hired foreign mercenaries and gave them land. With Britain becoming a global colonial empire later, English history and litterature popularized vikings.

Fantastic visuals

YES, Us Finns, we are oldest kingdom.

1:36 1:40 Bird? Bird noises? This tripped me out. I had to take my headphones off and look around. Tricky.

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Fornjotr=Kaleva Snaer=Niera Tuura/Torro/Ikutiera Nieranpoika=Thorri Ahti Saarelainen=Aude the Rich. Some of the finnish kings from the sagas are also found from finnic oral poetry. Finns burned city of Birka in viking age. There is Finnic poem kalled "Koiviston palo". Koivisto=Birka. In the poem of Ahti saarelainen it is said that Ahti was "saaren kultainen kuningas" or "golden king of the island". Saari=Insula Finlandais=Suomen saari=Finland=Western finland. According to the sagas and later historians Aude the rich was king of westerm finland and very ritch. In finnic poetry Ahti was king of western finland(saari) and very rich. Aude the rich could have been king of finland during 9th and 10th centuries. In finnic poetry ahti was king of finland(saari) during the burning of Birka(koivisto). Poem of ahti says that ahti was "king of the sea". This does not mean that he was sea god, but it means naval power. He ruled nearby waters with his fleets and even sacked Birka. The poem also says that "muistatko kuin hyvin elimme ja tuhat päätä turmelimme" or "do you remember whet we lived well and slew 1000 men". In finnic oral poetry finnic peoples will remeber the good old days whet they were rich, free and independent before crusades and western imperialism came to their lands. In the poem of marjatta christ child is crowned "kainuhun kuninkaaksi rahasaaren vartiaksi" or "king of Kvenland and warden of the mansion". In western finland(Finland, kvenland and tavastland) byzantine christianity has existed since 6th century according to archeology. Poem of marjatta could have been from the 11th century when western finland was mostly christian. Christianity came to finland from greece(byzantium). Then catholicism came to finland with teutonic order during the crusades in 13th century and lutherianism in 16th century when Gustav Waza took finland from Danmark and Germany. Swedes had only the coast of finland proper in 13th century. Finland was ruled by german hansa traders in 13th and 14th centuries and danmark during 15th century. I think that big part of finnic oral poetry whitch kalevala was made originated from finland and kvenland. In 17th century poet singers were persecuted in finland by the swedish government and many fled to karelia and became part of karelian people. I think that poems of marjatta, ahti and koivisto are from western finland while those mythological väinämöinen poems are mostly from karelia and bjarmaland.

There is more to the history but so much has been destroyed by the foreign rulers we've had. Just like it has happened all around the world. Invaders always get rid of local religion and culture. What we have here is just what was left and spread around in face to face, stories.

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Interestingly in Nordic sagas there is definitely several mentions of Víkingr frá Esthland. So it's should be out of questions wether some coastal Estonians were vikings. Especially Oeselians (inhabitants of Saaremaa).

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Please make a video about how the Finns made their hillforts and what they looked like! I’d die to see something like that! 😅

We Savonians are mongrel tribe, mix of Karelians, Tavastians and Lapps/Sámi. Our dialect is eastern one like Karelians.

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Kvenland was quite large area. Kaland, satakunta, ostrobothnia, modern day kainuu, Finnmark and northern sweden(helsingland) belonged to kvenland. Finland proper, tavastland and savonia belonged to Finland/Tavaesthland. Finnish population of Finnmark(ruija) is very old. Its at least from the viking age. Finns of finnmark are still called kvens.

From what i can tell Finland is half Viking as they share similar characteristics to sea faring and raiding but different from Norse Germanic Vikings to be their own identity

Many historians bypass the fact of language. When country has being occupied for hundreds of years by not one but two foreign language speaking conquerors it suggests that there has being something to be proud of as foreign languages have not being adopted by the Finns. Finns maintained their own language (even that it has changed over centuries like all other languages as well) and their own religions, stories, mythology. Logically thinking this behavior suggests some sort of greatness in past. And as modern activities show conquerors do tend to rewrite history for their favor it can be presumed that there has being activities to reduce finns national history in the past. Facts are however quite clear from archeology that there has being culture in Finland 10000 years ago and we have rock paintings from stone age, we have viking age findings and then we have our language.

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Most historians agree that Kvenland is derived from the word ”Kainuu”, and you showed this by putting Kvenland into the place of modern Kainuu. But i find it more likely that they were some kind of proto/para ostrobothnians since i read somewhere that the word ”Kainuu” was originally used forthe coast of Ostrobothnia. And unlike the modern area of Kainuu, we have archeological evidence of a rich most likely merchant type tribe in the modern area of Ostrobothnia from the period when Kvenland would’ve been a thing.

I can't confirm much further than early 16th century, but I got atleast 400 years of family knowledge. Land area is named by our lastname and is well respected between Tampere and Hämeenlinna area to this very day. :)

I've always thought that the former old self serving rhetoric common among the Germanic peoples paints Finns in a good light no matter what. Either they could not stand up to savages and every village strongman was as good and qualified as their royal king, or that Finland had some sort of kingdom or tribal alliance. Tietäjälaitos is a proven concept and it'd be weird to have organized religion without organized state, but then again, if we mudhut dwelling savages could raid Swedes and rebuke many crusades, then i wouldn't say it's impossible. I think Finns might have not been vikings per se, i've read of Merovingian age loot being found in graves in Finland, maybe it was always a sort of option. Watched a documentary which told about Finns being varjagi/varanki/varyag, that they sailed down the volga and sold furs to Iranic peoples and such.

Since the Baltic was as a fast highway in the Iron Age between that is now Finland and Sweden it must have been a lot of contacts anyway between Finnish and Swedish tribes back then.

Clearly at least Estonians and Finns interacted with each other quite a lot as the languages are very closely related. That means trading and co operation

If I'm not mistaken, a lot of Swedes settled on the Finnish coast.

Christian Finnish Frostiis wow i tought i was only finn talking english on Tube, Christian God bless you and you're family and loved ones Amen Be safe ! Oh i was so waiting if you say the magic words, Finland has the second highest amount of found ulfberht sword's only second to Norway yay you are knowledgeable ! Thank you for this interesting topic ! I am surprised you even suggested to leave a prayer and i did before i heard you say that even ! Subbed ! My 93y old grandma said i should talk about history too on tube, and i do in little bits when it's appropriate for my Tube so it's nice to see a dedicated finnish history channel made by a finn with courage to talk english

Jag är båda, Suomalainen ja Svensk. Vi har en lång historia tillsammans.

i know the sagas aren't historical but the story of Fornjot is quite interesting.

I'm Finnish American and mostly Finnish, with a little Scot and English in there. However I did an ancestry DNA test and it turns out there's a decent amount of Swedish and Danish in me. Makes me wonder if that's all from the Viking era and raids.

To the Norse, "Finn" meant Sami. Referring to people who spoke an ancestor of the modern Finnish language (as opposed to an ancestor of the modern Sami languages), they would call them Karelians, Kvens, Tavastians, Shudes etc. but never Finns. It's interesting how a demonym can wander like that. The Norse sagas refer to "Finn kings" both in legends (the master smith Volund/Wayland was supposed to be the son of one), and in history (there's one well-known account of a Finn king who called on Norse aid against tribes further east) but they were likely Sami chieftains. Like the pagan Norse, the pagan Sami also had no proper "priest" caste, it was almost always the chieftains who were the noaides (shamans). The pagan Norse didn't see themselves as having a fundamentally different religion than the pagan Sami. Contrary to what many people believe, they converted to Christianity at roughly the same time too. It's true the Sami kept a ton of superstitions and customs of obviously pagan nature, but so did their Norse neighbors. Viking is the Norse word for pirate. Pirates are almost always multi-ethnic - you have sailors who travel and see the world, and see people with different customs who hold completely different things holy. Then they start wondering if any customs - their own or others' - are really that big a deal, and then the customs that you shouldn't plunder wealthy strangers and be cruel are often first to go. The thing that stopped you was in large part "people just don't DO that", and you've just seen with your own eyes that this ain't necessarily so... Popper called it "the strain of civilization". Meeting people with different customs has many benefits, but both tolerance and cruelty has a tendency to win out by default. So yes, there probably were Finnish people on viking ships, as well as Sami ones, Baltic ones and maybe even a few impious people from Christian Europe. Norse was their common language though.

Interesting video. This tends to lead into the world of semantics, though. If the word Viking is an old Norse word meaning "raider from the sea" (and the proof seems a bit inconclusive on this) not even all Swedes, Norwegians or Danes were vikings. They were Norse and some of them went raiding across the seas, so these raiders were vikings. If we assume the word viking means just sea raider, all sea raiders would be sorted under the headline Viking, Arabs, African raiders and so forth. Just as people from the British isles were included in the viking raids, so must there have been a few Finns or other ethnic groups from the Baltic countries, or Slavs being picked up on the way south towards Miklagård. Hmm this leads to the question if we really can refer to the trading Norse as vikings as they didn´t really raid...? We can also say that Vikings stopped to be vikings when they settled down in the British isles and only waged land wars and not raiding from the sea... Question is, why would the Finns want to be vikings, isn´t the local history rich enough to explore anyway? I recommend all interested in this topic to have a look at Welch viking´s video When is the viking age? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arVpZaRnsp-wcmw.html in the end it is about a modern view on sorting things way in the past, a not too easy thing to do.

Didn't some of the Norse Sagas state that some vikings married Sami and other female Finn Shaman on purpose? Due to the powers that were often attributed to them in both Finn and Norse mythology?

Whether there were Vikings in Finland, or whether some Finns had Vikings is a controversial topic. The issue is also related to whether or not Finland is part of Scandinavia. The current Finnish territory was part of the Kingdom of Sweden, depending on the interpretation, for about 600 years. For about 600 years, we were part of Sweden and thus also part of Scandinavia. After Sweden lost its eastern part to Russia, a new era began in Scandinavian history, when Finns wanted to be separated from the Scandinavian community. By measuring the skulls and other nonsense, a distinction was made between the descendants of the real Aryan Vikings and the rest of the Nordic countries. Gradually, there was a desire to fade Finland's share in Swedish history, and the story of the Vikings was part of this systematic activity. As different methods of studying history evolved, numerous Viking-era burial finds increased, and it became increasingly difficult to rule out the influence of the Vikings in Finland, or Finland's contribution to Viking history.

Siinäpä sitä onkin ihmettelemistä, kun jotkut tunnetut kertomukset esittää, että Rurik olisi ollut suomalais-ugrilaisen kansan jäsen. Eikä slaavi, kuten venäläiset asian haluaa ilmaistavan.

"Suomen kieli" These two words already prove the ancient culture of ours.

Vikings? No. Sea raiders, possibly and probably. You also forgot to mention that a lot of people from modern day eastern Sweden settled along the coast. A lot of finn's along with neighboring slavs would end up taken as slaves to be sold on the markets of Kiev and Constantinople. Aswell as fighting along side the Norse when they would aline themselves! So for better or worse, they got to travel quite far lol

hiukan puutteista tietämyksestä..sentäs se meni oikein että oli 5 eri "heimoa" ja se se että 5 klaanin jako sillä erolla että länsi suomessa on yksi noista klaaneista..ja sillon kuin viikinkit haasto ne kaato moniin venesaartoihin..plus nimppeli tietoutta että vanhaimmat riimu kirjoitukset on venältä uralilta ja suomesta..scandille se tuli vasta paljon jälkeen...

There were waaaay less finnish vikings when comparing to scandinavia, but there definitely were atleast some thats for sure.

You didnt mention Bjarmi-tribe?!

Vikings were people who fore in Vikings, that is plundering. Ordinary Norse people were thus not Vikings, but ordinary people, farmers. The term emanates from the Scandinavian word "Vik", wich means bay or inlet, where boats conviniently could be launched or set into the water, without harsh waves from the ocean or seas. The now unlucky people of Grindavik on Iceland, are called Vikings in Icelandic, but for the only reason, they dwell in a bay or vik. Certainly, some people in modern Finland and the Baltic states, especially Estland, could be regarded as "Viking" in the old times. Some of them even spoke Old-Norse.

For some odd reason I think I'm a reincarnated high king of the sami Finns I'm full blooded sami Finnish decent which my family has always been proud of. Kahkonen on my moms side and Haataja on my dads side. Both are ancient Finnish bloodlines

Wasn't someone has pointed out that their skill and mastered in shamanism, animism and the stark beauty of the girl/maiden makes them a sought after for being queen for other northerny rulers? That means, they are being well-respected in the viking age

I would like to know if Middle Ages Finns dressed like their Scandinavian neighbors or if they had their own style.

Trade network? I belive the world was more connected by trade then we actually expect.

In my opinion I think we can only use the word Viking to describe Sea-Raiders/Pirates from Scandinavia and other Norse-Settled and occupied territories elsewhere, where the Iron-Age Scandinavian culture, customs, religion and language were dominant. The word "Viking" itself is an old Norse word. It doesnt make sense to describe a people with different beliefs, culture, language and so forth, as "Vikings" even if they participated in similar activities as the Vikings.. Otherwise that would make18th century Pirates like Blackbeard and modern-day Somalian Pirates Vikings too. There is plenty of "Viking" objects found in Estonia and Finland, but that can also siomply mean that they simply traded with Swedes or other Scandinavians or that the Swedes had colonies and settlements there aswell (which I believe we know for a fact that they did). And why should that come as a shock? They are neighbors afterall. I dont think we should call the Finno-Ugric peoples Vikings - I think that is offensive to say about them in a way. They had their own truly epic mythology and traditions like the Kaalevala that should be lifted up and talked about more, not be downplayed and boxed in with the Iron-Age Scandinavians. In large part thanks to their mythology we have things like the Lord of the Rings and modern Fantasy. They had their own interesting tales of raids and battles, the Battle of Herdaler being only one of them.

The whole era is what is that popular definition of a Viking ? Yes there were Finish VIKINGS ! Yes the Fins are a people of quiet strength, until provoked. I am just an American who has some Finish blood. With my auburn hair and cherry red beard. And I a set of lungs that can destroy the silence for miles. And people call me Frank the Screaming Viking.

Tbh we were probably just grumbling in the woods avoiding unnecessary conflict like always

Metsäviikingit veti turpaan tänne tulevia. Ystävällisin terveisin -Roviorannikko

Finland was there under the Vikings age, together with tha Rus 《Swedes) and to the East. They founded Kiev among other cities in Russia. Dont forget that pll from all Scandinavia also went to England, that means ppl from. todays Finland too Scandinavia also went to England to raid.

Speaking about population of ancient finland, i think that all baltic finnic peoples(finns, karelians, estonians, livonians, votes, chudes and bjarms) combined roughly consisted 1milliom people.

In my own investigations i'm trying to figure out if the Norse, Sami and Finns actually share more cultural commonality during the pagan era as kinda multilateral integrated cultural cooperation and working of the thesis that it was the christianization and the missionary doctrine is what eventually lead to rather imperialistic, cultural supremacy thinking of the former Norse jarls and the new christian kings that screwed up the dynamic. A strong indication that I've found is a christian laws written in the early 2nd millennia states that (Norse) people where forbidden to seek out Finns and Sami to receive spells and magic. This hints that Norse people actually regarded their magic as desirable and believed in it. This showed that normal people actively opposed Christianity and sought ways to round it. I don't know how to interoperate that other then a deep respect for the culture of the Samis and Finns and that it was in fact the Roman church that didn't respect it. There also quit a lot of similarities regarding the mythology, the creatures, even deities and the source of natural phenomena which strongly indicates of a cultural sharing.

Ancient kings of sweden, danmark, norway, britain and orkney isles took their queens from kvenland. Vilhelm the conqueror wrote that he is proud to be descendant of Fornjotr. Still the document can be found in london. In the dynasty lists of england fornjotr is marked as ancestor of first dynasty. Rollo was also descendant of forjotr. Finland and kvenland was called "land of the giants" because the kings were extremely tall. Still the gene that causes people to become giantlike exist in ostrobothnia. Finnic poetry speaks about "kalevan suku" or "family of kaleva" who were giantlike people. David Cajanus was one of the few remaining members of that family in 18th century. He or someone in his family wrote(i dont remember who) that "tästä kalevan suvusta on tässä maassa jäljellä yhä pitkää ja voimakasta väkeä mutta heidän jälkeläisensä jäävät yhä pienemmiksi" or in this kaleva's(fornjotr's) family in this land(finland) still reamains tall and strong people but their descendants are getting even smaller".

Are "Normands" from Normandy (France) viking.? (Majoritary DNA scandinavian)

I always enjoy learning more about my father's side of my family; the Finnish side with my mother being of Swedish heritage. Either way, I do have Viking heritage.

1. Finland is Suomi in Finnish 2. Finland was Eastern Sweden for 700 years and Finns was fighting in the Swedish army 3. While Norway, Denmark, and Sweden had several wars between them, Finland has never had a war with Sweden.

To me viking refers more to way of life than origin of person. It is a disappointing fact that we fins dont have our written history from viking era. Discovery of viking swords, specially how many of them found in finland is interesting and weird fact, ulfbert swords, a lot of those in finland. How did the superweapon of that era got in finland?

Some Finns, some Esti, are partly from Sweden, wich in the old times was called Roslagen, and to this very day. Hence the term "Rus".

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minj 4:50. "the Viking Age Finland". One needs to leave out the word 'THE'.

They're different... they're not directly related...but there are absolutely 100% many cognates between Suomi and Norse. Lots of linguists like to think the Finnish just popped out of a hole in the ground but that's not the case.

Since Vikings often refer to Scandinavian raiders, I don't think Finns were "vikings." The archaeology points to well connected trade routes and pan-nordic interaction though. I don't think it's too farfetched handful of Finns, hearing of Scandinavian success with raiding, might've went with the Scandinavian Vikings as mercenaries or raiders themselves. It's just speculation though, I could be pretty wrong here.

The Cheedite invasion of Europe is never talked about.

am a mix 😅 half dane and finn 😆 Grow up in Norway

I believe the giant Pike have immigrated to Canada, we have a number of those guys living in our lakes. They like to eat ducklings; baby muskrats and the painted toe of the girls in my family. We solve the problem of these monsters by eating them. remember You are what you eat!

Man... the possibility of putting the high king in 4 minutes 20 seconds was there to be used 🤣😉

The thumbnail has a warrior with chain mail and helm. Although pagans in Finland put into graves swords, shields, spears, axes and horse bits, they didn't bury metal armors nor helmets. So most likely pagan age Finnish warriors didn't look like that. Sometimes even women were buried with weapons. Burial custom in pagan Finland was cremation: bodies were burned and then ashes was put into stone structures. When people turned into Christian faith, they started to bury bodies, no cremation.

Why do you think the Finnish ppl didnt sail east with the Swedes? Because they did and they were there and founded todays Kiev among other cities in Russia

Considering Estonians and Kuronians are attested to in the Saga’s as Vikingr, and mentioned as being allies, raiding and fighting wars together and against. It’s fair to say any pirate in the Baltic matched the true definition of Viking.

if you're finn, you could likely have viking blood course in your veins. i myself am a finn born on the wrong side of the atlantic. mother is savolainen n father karajalainen

Vikings were Germanic. Finns are not Germanic. ☝️Forest goblins. 😂 The Oeselians are a more interesting question. It has been suggested they were Germanic, despite living off the main coast of what is now Estonia. For people in the know though, the defeat of Oeselians was the true end of Vikings. No one talks about them though.

Yea don’t know much about ole Finland

Finns were not vikings but there were Scandinavian viking tribes living in what is now Finland.

Vikings didn't really like Finns because they were poor, didn't have very beautiful women and raiding them was a big threat because Finns were great hunters and were able to ambush raiding vikings in forest

Vikings were Germanic People. Finnish are not even an European nation as origin and historically. They are accepted as Uralic people . We ( Turks) are even more close to Finnish People than Vikings .

Finns were the ONLY true Vikings, joo joo kyllä!

No They was not !

No. They couldn't occupy Finland.

of course they were not they were of course bussy with sitting in the sauna and beat up the local homosexual...

Finns are ethically Balts :D ofc they where practising piracy, and that was long before the Vikings existed.

Nope, Finns are not vikings, and vikings were scared shitless of the Finns. Because we were a bunch of PERKELES back them.

Norwegians were Vikings. Not Swedes, not Danes, nor Finns, nor Germans.

Sorry, we had no vikings here, of course not. And you should absolutely not use the Sami flag, ever!