I'm a Finn and I enjoyed this so much! It is sad how little we know about our history and religions before Christianity, because like you said, we were culturally behind and nobody was there to write it down. All of oral tradition almost died too, probably because we more like tribes and didn't have sense of nationality under the rule of Sweden & Russia. Our holy groves have been turned to churchyards and we have been forced to forget our traditional magic... Luckily viking sagas managed to preserve some bits and pieces.
That is because we finns are not actually very homegenous group of people. Every tribe is bit different from eachother. There is huge genetic difference between western and eastern finns. Ancient finnish tribes HATED eachother. There was many bloody tribal wars between different finnish tribes. For example Tavastians and Savonians didn't like eachother. Not one bit. This is pretty much the biggest reason why Finns lacked the national identity. They saw themselves more like small tribes but not as one big nation.
@@perkele8806 No tietysti ihmiset on pidettävä erossa totuudesta kaikilla elämänaloilla, sitähän mediakin tekee päivittäin. Koko historiankirjoius ja kaikki virallinen on pelkkää sepitystä. Sillä tavalla hallitaan. Myös suomalaisiin kuningaskuntiin suhdaudutaan pelkkinä myytteinä vaikka ulkomaisia lähteitä löytyy
@@perkele8806 No pitää katsoa kuka virastoa pyörittää. Mahtaako kolonialismi jatkua yhä edelleen. Miksi pakkoruotsi ym alistus. Asiat yhdistyy aika helposti kun hieman raottaa verhoa
The Finns are my favorite Europenas as well, for so many reasons. Totally humble, calm and unpretentious, but arguably some of the most bad-ass fighters that have ever lived, when they get pushed into it. The Finns never seemed to have started shit with anyone, but anyone that's ever messed with them has paid for it. Ask Russia. Their ability to consume alcohol is ltruly impressive. And their profanity is beyond compare in its hilarity and sheer vulgarity.
We share common ancestors in East Siberia. 11 women and 2 of them were from Finnish tribes and 1 from Nepalian tribes walked to lands of west before Ice Age, these made "Americans". My grand mother is from this tribe and is connected to "Americans" very highly... Just to respect our tribes. How you call your land? It sure hell is not America.
I've understood that's why Finn's and natives both have alcohol issues. Can't just take one glass.. prone to alcoholism. They share the same blood types or something
Possibly. Us 'Indins don't have the enzyme that breaks down ETOH alcohol . Now, that's not for ALL Native Americans, but for most. Including my tribe. And is also why haven't had any alcohol in 36 years. @@karlkuoppala6555
As a Finn I salute you sir! 🫡 You're research is spot on as always. Finnish paganism has been my interest for a long time but never have I heard anyone talking about these things with such passion and knowledge. So thank the allfather for a one crazy Norwegian who always makes my day perfect when a new video pops out. We Finns fought tribal wars with ourselves since the bronze age. So we only united against when some assholes came with longboats from the sea and tried to raid our villages etc. We still have high hills overlooking lakes that were used as a warning system by burning bond fires just like Gondor did calling Rohan for help in the Lord of the rings 🪓
Here's some extra info about Vikings and Finns: On a saga Finnish area is mentioned as "land of fires" too. Finns used a warning/signal bonfires on the highest points along the sea shores what gave time to prepair and gather men against raiders/invaders and weaker people; elders, children and women had time to escape to forests. Many times Finnish areas wasn't easy targets for raiding and one reason was those bonfires. Also second most viking age swords are found in Finland after Norway, so im sure they were capable of defending themselves, especially combined with ambush tactics and using forests as an advantage. According to saga of "Battle of Herdaler" Norwegian viking leader Olav Haraldsson and his men (later king of Norway) went raiding in Finland; Finns escaped or pretended like they escaped to deep forests and vikings gave up by chasing them to inland. They returned to the shore/ships, but Finns ambushed them there, Olav almost died on the battle and they had to escape and sail on the storm. Finns used the retreat and ambush tactic even on a war against soviets. Im a history freak by myself and i've read that most of the viking era Vikings had good relations with Finns/Karelians and were mostly trading partners, not enemies. There was more benefits being friendly with Finns because they got most of the fur stocks from Finnish tribes by trading and the locals knowledge of further connections was important too. Vikings were aggressive towards Baltics, but with a Finnic people it was quite the opposite, most likely because they saw them so useful 🙂 Furs were expensive valuables on south where vikings sold them to muslim silver. Finns and Norse even had common settlements on Finnish shores and especially on Karelia/Lake Ladogan area. Finns went also trading to Sweden in Mälaren and Sigtuna areas. Viking route to Novgorod and far south to muslim areas went alongside side of the Finnish shores through Karelian isthmus and Lake Ladoga was like a main gate to Olkhov (Nevajoki) river what lead to Novgorod and south. Almost forgot, but Vikings accually needed Finns/Karelians help and knowledge when they were searching new lands on the east/south. Locals knew the river routes and connections, but they also helped as an translators between vikings and slavic people. Vikings also changed their longboats to smaller Karelians river boats at Staraja Ladoga (Laatokanlinna), because rivers past that are shallow and narrow at many points.
@@magnusnyberg3512 Where does the information come from, what exactly are the Swedes? The fortress was founded on the territory, which was already inhabited by various Finno-Ugric peoples. And the most ancient layer is the Finno-Ugric one.
@@kainptz I don't recall my response, but we're probably talking about Aldeigjuborg - present-day Staraja Ladoga - the place where Rurik (Rörek) started out. Dendrochronology shows that the first Svear houses were built in 753. You can read a lot about Rurik and the town on the net, or else in any biggish Nordic library.
@@magnusnyberg3512 Yes, that's right, Staraya Ladoga is Rurik's stronghold and the ruling elite there was scandinavian. However, I meant the population itself. The most ancient archaeological layers belong to the finno-ugric peoples (and even, if I'm not mistaken, there were Saami finds).
We have really foggy history because almost nothing was written down before christians came here and then our history and myths were christianised so its even more foggy and fragmented
My father faught in the winter war. And our family farm in Vipuri was taken by Russia. My dad lived to 95. He always mourned for the farm he was born on. It was our farm for a thousand years.
I feel pretty happy that no matter what has happened or who happens to own the forests I roamed as a child, I can take a bus and visit it any time I would like. This reminded me to be very grateful.
My great grandpa came to the US in 1903, unfortunately the traditions and language didn't survive the generations of separation and now my family only has the name left. But at least I can learn more as info gets clearer. I'm sorry for your family's loss, I can't imagine losing something so closely tied to your family and ancestors.
@@akuhiiri6873 Yeah, I was able to learn that much when I got older, but for at least 3 generations we've pronounced it with the English W sound at the begining. Most of my older relatives passed when I was young so I only ever heard how my dad and grandmother pronounced it.
Sauna is also kinda funny "nyanse" in that Finnish "indian" style culture. American Indians have also "hikimaja". "Sweat ´shag´" (dunno what they are called in english / among American Indians. Hot tents maby? :D... So: Indians go to hot tent, add steam and smoke drugs. Wonder does Siberian tribes have had somekind of Sauna?
And could Sauna be somekind of mark how triibes has mixed trough Siber, and has those other aboriginal tribes in the world, who has Saunas, something to do with Finnish sauna..? Interesting.
Thank you for a very informative video. I have Finnish ancestry and would definitely enjoy learning more in further videos about their history and culture.
I think it's kind of "Nordicversial" that today we all love the Finns 🙂 They are badass, really friendly, and even if they talk that strange language, they feel familiar to be around. They also have a great humor, that I as a Dane is totally compatible with 😀 I've been with them as a civilian and as a soldier. They are skilled. And they have some beautiful women !
😹 great comment! Im finnish. At least what it comes to my genetics, family members, and where i ve luved most of my life. Though i never felt like part of this nation and culture 🙀 i feel more like you Erik, they ve got great humor and i feel respect for them many ways 😼
I’m a little late to this but I love you danes. Working in a danish company I’ve had a couple of insanely nice trips to Denmark. Such a friendly and welcoming people and just as rowdy as us, you make for great drinking buddies! Latest trip was a company birthday and we had employees from all around the world. It was awesome sitting at a table with all the nordic bros literally all: us finns, danes, norwegians, swedes and icelanders. And like you said we do speak a language none of you will ever understand at all but despite there being a ”language barrier” there is no cultural barrier whatsoever. We don’t speak a similar language but you don’t feel foreign at all. We speak about the same things, all we know is the same stuff. And we grow up around alot of the same things in all the nordic countries. I think mostly it’s the very relaxed social culture that is just so similar in all the nordics.
Cheers. While because of the language thing I find Scandinavians even more relaxed amongst each other, there's definitely a strong Nordic cultural love connection there. Personally, while you'd think our connection to the Swedes (ie. the Sweden Swedes, not the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority since they're just as Finnish as anyone else, really) would be the closest, I tend to prefer Danes on average :D And Icelanders, too! Maybe it's more of a cliche, and even simply due (to a small extent) to the silly-sounding rikssvenska accent, but the average Swede often feels a bit uptight and somehow pretentious to me. And maybe because of the common history and profound effect Swedes (and later Finland-Swedes) have had on our culture, society, our elites, history, political and legal institutions, even the birth of Finnish nationalism, I can't help but to feel a bit irritated every time it turns out that while your regular Swedes are friendly and all, they usually know next to nothing about Finland* and can even appear a bit condescending in various minor ways... Not that regular Danes would be any less ignorant - but lets say it's more understandable. But yeah, maybe it's a bit personal too, but I tend to get along with Danes a bit better. Fun company, no bullshit dark humor. Also, I grew up loving von Trier (earlier the better) and Vinterberg, for example. Given how easy it is in writing, I just wish I could understand even like half of what you speak, tho' 🧏😁 But how I ended up watching this video, I don't know. Is this guy serious? Magic? What's wrong with people? Also, a lot of his non-imaginary "Finnish" prehistory (just using "Finnic" half the time instead would've made him seem less obviously brain-dead btw) is way off, but I can't be bothered - there's always one more person wrong on the internet. (*) I mean, in principle, following all things Finnish would be super-easy because of our Swedish-language media sphere. I know it's not super-interesting, though, but you should at least know something about the common history etc., so you don't end up, for example, complementing a natively Swedish-speaking Finn about their good Swedish, or switching to English because of their "foreign" accent! 😂
These are some of my favorite videos that you do. I know you THINK you're boring but it is told in a way that sounds like you're talking to me, it is relatable and digestible.
There is actually quite a lot simularity in the old gods of Finns and vikings. Ukko was a god of thunder, storms and rain. He wields a hammer or axe. You can see the connection 😁 Also some stories tell that finns were feared and respected but also hired for raids cause they could raise winds or storms so they were good for sailing long distances as long as you stayed on the right side with them. As you said you dont want to get to the wrong side. There are couple hundred thousand soviet troops on the border few meters deep as proof 🤔
I hope there’s a movie someday like the Northman but from a Finnish perspective. Those dudes were warriors from day one I’d like to see them in cinema. Especially seeing a deep dive into the Finnish magic practices.
The Finnish deities, and Finnic deities as a whole, being similar to Norse ones is rather due to influence from the proto-Baltic people rather than interaction with the later Norse. And since both Baltic and Norse originated from Indo-Europeans, their pantheons were similar due to sharing the same origin.
I am a purebred Finn living in So.Calif. Your video spoke to my soul hopefully to remind me of what I am. Peaceful, loving nature, but if messed with...well...things happen. I wish I knew how old Finns controlled the winds. On windy days, as soon as I get outside with my kite...no wind....
Don't forget Ulfberht swords 😎 "unique swords with the inscription +VLFBERHT+ on the blade, dated between the 9th and 11th centuries. In the Viking Age, the privilege of having such a sword belonged exclusively to the elite, because an Ulfberht sword’s unmatched strength could only be had at a high cost. Norway and Finland are where the largest numbers of these swords have been found."
I have Finnish ancestors and enjoyed learning about this kind of history. I wish Grandpa could see this video! He loved telling stories about his dad,who came from Finland to USA. :)
Did you hear about the U.S. court case that allowed Finns to get citizenship? In 1908 their citizenship was contested because they were deemed “Mongols” and “China-Swedes.” A U.S. judge had to legally declare them white so they could get citizenship. the Judge’s name was William Cant.
Wow, you have done a lot of research on the Finns, We never talked about the Viking age at school so widely during history lessons and the Finnish national history prior to the middle ages was pretty much ignored in the late 80s and early 90s when I was in school, a very good and educational video that was fun to watch, your English is phenomenal and easy to listen, looking forward to learn some more, Good job and Greetings from Finland!
When i was kid, they actually taught christianity in schools. Teach how to believe, how absurd is that? And that is how history is suppressed. I resigned from church when i was in legal age to do it, after i(and many others) was forced into it on birth. It never felt even real, and i rebelled against it through my school years.
Yes in school we didnt talk about vikings in Finland, when it was told finns were not vikings and vikings had not much anything to do with Finland, when attacked elsewhere mostly, but I did not know this finns magic thing, when heard other nomadic tribes, like in native america also practice magic and that was funny this how the swedish kings always wanted the most beutiful woman, when maybe they appreciated finnish women beuty more, than the typical swedish woman beuty.
Unluckily we are not taught about our real history. Just the history about some godly like man not even close to us. We are still not fully converted to christianity as we have pagan ways.
As a Finnish woman who always thought that what the heck ..there MUST be vikings in Finland no one talks about..Thank you VERY much for this video 😍❤️🇫🇮
Most of the nations around Baltic sea practiced raiding. Its just that Scandinavians turned into a damn religious practice. Most of the early medieval period of what is modern Finland was battle grounds for tribal warfare as testified by ridiculous number of "viking swords" found here only surpassed by the number found in Norway.
Jep, tosi yllättävää että joku persu haluaa uskoa suomalaisten olleen viikinkejä ja joku mahtava kuningaskunta. Suur-Suomikin varmaan tulossa pian? Nää ei ikävä kyllä oo vaan uskon asioita vaan täytyy luottaa arkeologisiin ja historiallisiin faktoihin. Tosiaan mistään muualta noita viikinkiesineitä tai -hautoja ei löydy kuin rannikolta missä kävivät tekemässä ryöstelemässä ja joskus tekemässä kauppaa.
You should take a look at the Viking age on Estonian lands (Particularly Saaremaa aka Ösel) - they have the second richest findings after Gotland and the oldest and biggest Viking ship burial called Salme. It's definitely gonna be interesting to research. Btw spiritually, Estonians aren't far from Finnish people. Even with different recent history, they still share natural way of human life because of their hardship. Estonians and Finns don't have much to do other than roast each other with dark humor, it's a national sport.
As a Finn I would be ecstatic to hear about Estonian peoples role in this saga, for to me I have always felt great brotherhood to you my Estonian brothers and sisters and would love to see the historical differences on how our nations divided before the soviet times (and of course times before imperialism) that most of us know/don't know about these days.
really great video, it was great to hear stories from the Viking era as a Finn 🇫🇮 A lot of Viking swords and jewelry have been found in Finland recently when amateur metal hunting has become more common. it would be great to hear more stories from Finland after the Viking Age, I hope you manage to make a new video about them.
Over 400 Viking age swords have been found in Finland at a rate of roughly 10 more finds each year. A large portion are also +Ulfberht swords. Finns probably both bought and manufactured swords. This is not something poor hand to mouth communities do. Some years back it was estimated those best swords would be worth (to the average person) £24000 (a years wage) in high end and £2000 in cheap end. After all the inflation that comparison needs adjustment. The smith is a central part of Finnish mythology as well, so all in all we can speculate that society was a combination of practical primitive and carpentry technology together with excellent knowledge and work of iron technology.
@@haliaeetus8221 I was metal detecting with my brother near one of the dried out ancient tibutaries of Aura river this summer. Not 30mins in till I found the first sword blade, hilt and pommel. Countless boat rivets(ship burial site apparently), skillfully made jewelry, spearheads... No ordinary people were buried in ships. Metal detector was beeping nonstop. The place turned out to be an ancient burial ground. Finland is FULL of places like this, grounds full of mysteries and untold history.
@@Siemenkarju22 WOW, Niilo, thank you for sharing, that is absolutely AMAZING! And what a hobby you and your brother have: Revealing the secrets of history! You guys are just fantastic.
Like most Minnesotans, I have Scandinavian roots. A Finnish grandmother and Danish grandfather. Thanks for keeping my past alive and relevant through your information!
Swedish/Finn/Saami here, I want to thank you as well for showing interest in our past. A lot of people do not care, so it is always nice to see someone who has an interest in where we came from. I also have a decent amount of American family in Minnesota, us Nords seem to litter the area lol.
@@billywiththebulgingbaloonb5105 Har jag berättat ett skämt? I don’t get what’s funny? “Our past” is in reference the the history of the culture and heritage of our ancestors.
Finnish pagan here 👋🏻! Since I was a small child I was interested in old believes, old traditions and magic what old relatives practiced in my family. I found Vikings when I was 11, long before internet, TV shows etc. Same time I start to read Native Americans history. I have found many similarities between old Finn / Norse and Native Americans. I wish to see more this kind of videos!
I really respect the work you doing in here. Telling about history in the way not professors cant tell. All of your videos so well done and interesting. Having talent of making ''forgotten'' history alive and interesting is just amazing. BIG SHOUT OUT FROM FINLAND! BROTHER FROM THE ANOTHER MOTHER
Thank you for this fascinating video. Some of the stories you told, I’ve heard before but I was really astounded how much Finnish magic had influence back in the Viking era. My maternal grandparents are of Finnish Lappish origin and they and their parents still used the old - nowadays mostly lost - magic (wisdom). They might have used it to protect their life stocks or for good luck in hunting, for healing or to find out where their reindeers were or why the salmon wouldn’t rise up the rivers. They did their magic still very recently. I remember my grandfather telling me a true story how when he was a young boy he would often cut himself accidentally with a knife or hurt himself with an axe when cutting wood. So his uncle did some magic on him and told my grandfather that “from now on, no iron or steel never again make your blood spill”. Long story short, my grandfather believed until his dying days that his uncle’s magic saved his life in the 2nd WW against the Soviets (Russians). And he was part of a special troop, so called Long Distance Patrol, twice decorated for bravery.
It is easier to be brave if you are invulnerable. My grandpa was serving in a similar unit, long range recon behind enemy lines. Wounded twice during the wars. He should have got himself one of dem spells too.
There is still celebration in southern finland called "muinaistulien yö" (night of the ancient fires) which is celebrated because of fires that warned mainland of upcoming viking raid.
Great vid and learned a lot! As a Finn I really appreciated your words and I really think that we, as a nordics, share a brotherhood and a lots of love for ya Norsks as well!
My great-grandparents were off-the-boat Finns. They had passed before I was born, and my grandmother completely Americanized and we never were introduced to the cultures, not including saunas, of course. Thank you for sharing this; I plan on exploring my roots a bit closer now.
Thank you for this video. I have been trying to find more information about Finnish history to learn more about my ancestors, and you actually list sources unlike most other TH-camrs so I know which direction to go next. I'd love to learn more.
I want to add to that Origin part, when you say nobody really know where Finno-Uralic people came from, the N1c Haplogroup is believed to Originate from Indo-China about 15,000-20,000 Years ago. There are some maps showing even the immigration route. From Indo-China, to Machuko, and from Siberia to the Urals and from Urals to baltics and then to Nordics. also i wouldn't say Finns were weaker and easy targets for Vikingr raids. >9th Centry Kvens raid Sweden. Story of Norma-Gest tells of raids done by Kvens to Sweden. Ohthere of Halogaland tells of skirmishes between Finns and Norwegians. (Finnic Victory) >1228, Finns make campagin against Novhgorod. Finns make a campaign to lagoda with over 2000 men (Karelian Finnic Victory) >1226 Karelians make annother expedition to Norway with Novgorod. Karelians make another expedition against Norwegian settlements in Northern Scanndivania withNovgorod (Finnic Victory) >1253 Karelians make a raid againsnt Germans, Karelians raid against Germans in the area of Narca (Finnic Karelian Victory) >1257 Karelians make expedition to Sweden, Karelians make a devastating campagin to Sweden whgich lead King Valdemar to equest Pope Alexander IV to commence a crusade against them. (Finnic Victory) >1284 Germans make campaign to Karelia. German warlord Trunda makes campaign by boats and ships to Karelia via river neva. His goal was the taxation of Karelians. Truda and his men are defeated at the mouth of the river by Novogrodians with the men of Staraya Lagoda on the 9th of September. (Finnic Victory) >1241 Karelians ally with Novgorod against Germans in Koprye. Kareliasn, Ingrians and men from Straya Lagoda participate in campaign lead by Laexander Nevsky against Germans in the castle of Koporye. (Finnic Victory) >1229 Finns proper fight to eradicate Christianity from their lands. Pope Gregory IX condems Gothland in his letter on 16. February for provoking Finns propher with weaponsm horses, ships and supplies which they use in their battle to eradicate Christian faith from their lands. (Finnic Victory) >1189 Pillage of Sigtuna. Karelians (or Estonians) pillager the city on 12 july. The bishop of Uppsala and the Yarl are killed. (Finnic Victory) >1008 Battle of Herdaler. Olaf II of Norway is defeated by Finns somewhere in Uusimaa. (Finnic Victory). So it is safe to say that it was no easy raids and wars against Finnic tribes. Which by the way were very developed on human warfare, since being at war all the time with each others. + Finnish Pagans (some call them Baltic Vikings) attacked the Swedish capital of Sigtuna in 1187 and burned the city to the ground. This is the reason why the capital of Sweden moved further south to the small fishing village "Stockholmen", which later became Stockholm.
@@WombRaider_theoriginal if you are looking up the battles, use your search engine, they aren't hidden. Though not all of them are in English. If you are looking for the origin of N haplogroup well.. use your search engine. You can as plus search up the immigration routes of that haplogroup.
I am a Finnish Australian and my mum wad the only one who immigrated here from her family. We were indoctrinated but definitely felt we never really could follow religion. There was a big sense of believe what is true. We seek truth with determination. Thanks for sharing you wisdom on this topic ❤
Norseman: Never thought I die fighting side by side with a Finn Finnishman: What about side by side with a friend Norseman: ... Aye ... I can do that Much love to our Northern Finnish Cousins
Fun fact to those that don't know, he mentions a Finnish tribe known as ''Kvens'', in Norway a ''Kven/Kvæn'' is the word used to describe a Norwegian person who is part Norwegian and part Finnish, with a Finnish ancestry. (For example, a Norwegian with one of his/her parents being Finnish or part Finnish, or one or more Finnish grand or great grandparents, or otherwise having strong emphasis on Finnish ancestry in their bloodline.) Most commonly living in the far northern part of Norway, in the region known as ''Finnmark'', in the far north and far north-east of Norway, the region bordering Finland and the Barents Sea/North-East Norwegian Sea.
@@Aervund Kieven as in the city Kiev from Ukraine? I have no idea, but I do know that the city of Kiev was established and created by the Vikings, much like the city of Dublin in Ireland also was.
One of the most brutal, and extensive witch huntings in the whole world took place in Finnmark. Probably something to do with the influence of Kvens, and the closeness of the Finns, and their magic.
My family was pushed out of Karelia, but culturally Finnish. So they moved to the US and most were foresters. They were very environmentally conscious about foresting. Always take a tree, leave a tree.
While your point about 'living like beasts with nature' is a good one... to me it still sort of carries a slightly sour note. Living off of and together with nature doesn't need to mean that you are 'beastly' or 'behind'. It's a sort of simplicity. A denial of some of the things that 'civilization' brings - hoarding property or gold or other forms of wealth, fighting over it, building fortifications to protect what you own and fending off jealousy from others. What if the Finns (myself being a descendant) just never wanted or needed those things? We had culture, we had crafts to the degree we needed and desired, we had sauna, we had the clean, varied nature, we had ourselves and our stories and our beliefs. What more do you need? And why?
Great video, thanks! As a native Russian I will allow myself one piece of advice. Do not call those finno-hungarian people as Russians. They will not be abused, of course, as we have mixed quite a bit, but Komi people like to be called Komi, for one instance :)
I 'm Finnish and into Vikings , history and magic. One guy from work once said I remind him of Floki. That was the coolest thing anyone has ever said about me as I recall . He was from Philiphines, which is cool in it's own right that a guy from the other side of the World knows his Vikings. Good and interesting video. Here, have a like.
see one of Europe's first largest kingdoms and ruling houses was created by Finno-Ugric people. The first Hungarian kings were close to the Finns and not to today's Hungarian people.Here in Hungary, what happened was that the Finno-Ugric brought the peoples living here under their rule.
Swedish talking finn here. I learned a couple of years ago that my family has practiced magick for generations, without us realizing it was some old magick. 😂 We just thought it was a quirky family thing. It goes like this: Whenever someone loses a tooth, you throw the tooth into the fireplace. In the fireplace lives a magical creature (sorry it has a lot of names, can't remember what it was called!), who collects your teeth and he'll reward you, either with a new healthy tooth or a silver tooth. 😋 Spoiler alert: Never got silver teeth!
I thing there lots of old myths taught to children and you are so just to them that you dont recognise them to be paganism. Still i think if you are strong In your main values these other drops away.
fun fact: hundreds of viking swords have been found from finland. if i remember correctly the number is 500. in the numbers of the swords finland is top 3 after sweden and norway. finland also has 5 ingelrii swords and 31 ulfberht swords. only norway has more of those rare swords
"To give a number, there are a total of 677 catalogued complete swords, blades and blade fragments (Fig. 2). This figure includes all finds from mainland Finland, ceded Karelia and the Åland Islands. In addition, only double-edged blades were taken into consideration, which means that scramasaxes and single-edged swords, which are sometimes hard to distinguish from each other, are excluded. Of all these 677 collection numbers, 18 have been found in the territory of ceded Karelia, whereas 62 are from the Åland Islands. The number of finds from the Åland Islands includes those catalogued in the Åland Museum, although these were not examined or radiographed due to practical reasons. 44 The number of separate hilt parts without any intact blade is 197, seven of which are from ceded Karelia and five from the Åland Islands. Altogether the number of swords and sword parts is 874 from the studied area. www.utupub.fi/…/10024/119919/diss2016Moilanen.pdf…"
Such an interesting video. My hair is semi blonde on top, dark on the sides and my beard is black. Dark eyebrows. Family roots are in the lost part of Karelia that is Russia today. Exactly the same fate as Herson and other cities in Ukraine have met right now. Greetings from Finnish Karelia (Eastern Finland).
A Finnish historian told me the Finns had early warning system for Viking raiders. The raiders always came in from the south, so the first southern coastal village to spot raiders would make a huge bonfire. The next village up the coast would do the same as soon as they saw their neighbors' bonfire. And so on, all the way up the coast threatened by a raid. Forewarned is forearmed so this was a pretty effective defense. So them Finns were clever dudes! This historian also told me about Norse people going to Finns to learn magic. She was a pagan Finn herself. I'm Norwegian but have always acted like a Finnish or Dutch girl. I can take it AND dish it out!
You're right. On a saga Finnish area is even mentioned as "land of fires". Those warning/signal bonfires gave time to prepair and gather men against raiders/invaders and weaker people; elders, children and women had time to escape to forests. Many times Finnish areas wasn't easy targets for raiding and one reason was those bonfires. Also second most viking age swords are found in Finland after Norway, so im sure they were capable of defending themselves, especially combined with ambush tactics and using forests as an advantage. According to saga of "Battle of Herdaler" Norwegian viking leader Olav Haraldsson and his men (later king of Norway) went raiding in Finland; Finns escaped or pretended like they escaped to deep forests and vikings gave up by chasing them to inland. They returned to the shore/ships, but Finns ambushed them there, Olav almost died on the battle and they had to escape and sail on the storm. Finns used the retreat and ambush tactic even on a war against soviets. Im a history freak by myself and i've read that most of the viking era Vikings had good relations with Finns/Karelians and were mostly trading partners, not enemies. There was more benefits being friendly with Finns because they got most of the fur stocks from Finnish tribes by trading and the locals knowledge of further connections was important too. Vikings were aggressive towards Baltics, but with a Finnic people it was quite the opposite, most likely because they saw them so useful 🙂 Furs were expensive valuables on south where vikings sold them to muslim silver. Finns and Norse even had common settlements on Finnish shores and especially on Karelia/Lake Ladogan area. Finns went also trading to Sweden in Mälaren and Sigtuna areas. Viking route to Novgorod and far south to muslim areas went alongside side of the Finnish shores through Karelian isthmus and Lake Ladoga was like a main gate to Olkhov (Nevajoki) river what lead to Novgorod and south. Edit: Forgot to mention that vikings accually needed Finns/Karelians help and knowledge when they were searching new lands on the east/south. Locals knew the river routes and connections, but they also helped as an translators between vikings and slavic people. Vikings also changed their longboats to smaller Karelians river boats at Staraja Ladoga (Laatokanlinna), because rivers past that are shallow and narrow at many points. Im happy to see respectful Norwegian who doesn't overlook Finns and Finnish history and claim how "vikings were superior to others".
@@trumpjongun8831 Well, thanks! That's some great info there! My Finnish historian friend had studied the Vikings a lot, too, because, she said, the 2 cultures have such an intertwined history. She told me in the sagas, many of the "Finns" are probably the Norwegian Sami in Finmark. "Finn" in Old Norse appears to have referred to any Fenno-Urgaric person.
This is my favourite part of the Viking Saga: "The Finlanders conjured up in the night, by their witchcraft, a dreadful storm and bad weather on the sea" (Battle of Herdaler)
Is that why they had such a difficult time trying to come over to the US in the early 1900s? They were called China-Swedes and almost not allowed to get citizenship in the US. They literally had to be designated “white” by the Supreme Court in 1908 in order to get American citizenship in Missouri. There were so many people in the midwestern US calling them “Mongrels” becsuse they didn’t look “white.”
@@basicallyno1722 those are sami people. They live in far north of Sweden and Finland. Big blue/green eyed and blonde haired people are far from looking Chinese. So are tall guys with round big brown eyes and brown hair. Sami people only have those distinct eye lids which most Asians have.
It's nice to see that our country and it's not so known history and myths gets some attention at times 🙂 This video was great I enjoyed it, keep up the good work 😊 Ps. My favorite country is Norway for it's nature, people and it's history. I visit there every year and plan on maybe moving there someday.
The Fenni of Tacitus must be the ancient Finns. He writes, "...they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished." How Finnish!! The most content people of the planet...
Tacitus' description fits the proto-Sami more than it does the proto-Finns. At the time of Tacitus' writings, the proto-Finnic people were settled and practiced agriculture and had been doing so for a long time, even before they migrated into the region of the eastern Baltic. The proto-Sami on the other hand, due to their more northern migration, didn't pick up agriculture nor animal husbandry and remained largely as hunter-gatherers until the late Middle Ages/early Modern Period around the 1500s. Some Sami groups did however become settled due to picking becoming coastal fishermen along the northern Norwegian coastline during the Middle Ages. But then again, Tacitus never saw the Fenni with his own eyes and the description of them was passed on through different tribes and likely languages causing corruption of the original account. On top of all that, Tacitus as a Roman would have viewed this remote groups past even the Germanic tribes and further into the unknown as complete savages, even more so than the Germans.
Saami are what they called finn. This is why it is Finmark in Norway. Saami land. Tey called Suomi as finn too, but as the video said they said all uralics as finn.
I'm a finnish digital artist who likes vikings & norse mythology, as a finn its nice to learn about our "vikings",also all the spiritual stuff about finns is so damn cool
There's no doubt that Finnish Magic is alive and well. It has been passed through generations one after the other. Instilled in our spirituality. I'm one of those people, who others say things about that He/She just knew things without learning from writings. Those stories you hear. That feeling you know that is oh so familiar. That picture in your mind you can recall down to every small detail,all the while knowing you've never been there in this life. It is as common as we know our blood line is through our DNA. Some will believe what they will. Some will never receive clarity. Our brains are huge yet we use very little of it. How much have we lost because of little use? Passing down history through writings is extremely satisfying to gain knowledge. But, do we know everything in this world from writings? Some things you just know.
I am a Swedish speaking Finn / Finland Swede (=a Finn with Swedish as native language, one of Finlands official languages). We live on the west coast and in the south of Finland + Åland Islands of course, and there were a lot more of us further back in time than nowadays. I have also heard some say Vikings lived here, on the coast. It would be very interesting if you have any content/or would make some content about us Swedish speaking Finns, and the history of us. Feels like we are something in between Finns and Swedes. Personally, I very strongly identify with being specifically a Swedish speaking Finn (not a "regular" Finn). Don't know how this video came up in my feed. I'm into spirituality, but I'm superbad at history and don't really watch any viking content. But this was VERY interesting! And this video made me a lot more curious about finding out more about my own ancestry. All I know about my ancestry is that we have been here for a long time and I come from a lineage of probably mostly Swedish speaking people (not Finnish speaking ones).
What is mindblowing to me, is how there is such a stark difference when it comes to preserving the pagan ways in Finland versus the Scandinavian countries. We know so much more about what magic and worship of the otherworld looked like here. But then again, Finland did not accept christianity for a long time, so i guess we had more time to preserve a lot of the information. Though, i wish we had more stories of the gods. We know how to worship deities and spirits, but there's not much to go as far as campfire stories go. Sure, there's some about Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen, but for gods like Ukko, there's not a ton.
@Finnic Patriot I mean, Ilmarinen literally is NOT Ukko. The two are their separate entities, with Ilmarinen likely being an older deity. Ukko as an supreme deity might be a christian influence. Also i never said that Väinämöinen wasn't a god. What i meant was, there's stories of the gods that later got turned into 'heroes' by the influence of Kalevala. But you rarely if ever hear actual stories of Ukko or Tapio etc. There's only information on how to honor Ukko for example, but you don't actually know much about what he has done.
@Finnic Patriot "Reason you don't hear stories of Ukko, is because it's a euphemism for Ilmarinen." There is absolutely no basis for this claim. None whatsoever. Ukko might be an euphenism, yes. But also it might not be, similarly to how Freya or Freyr are widely acccepted god names, despite being more like titles. So just because Ukko might not be "Ukko's" actual name, doesn't mean that it's a concealed identity of Ilmarinen. Also, i didn't mean that an idea of supreme deity is influenced by christianity, i meant that Ukko being the supreme deity might be. Because it doesn't make sense for him to be the head of the finnish pantheon. If Ukko is euphenism, i personally think that it could be one for Virankannos. A deity that once must have held massive significance. I don't have a source at hand, and i'm honestly not going to dig it up for this occasion, but one of my books on finnish myths does contain a poem that refers to Virankannos as being "ylijumala", and while this certainly could well be a shared title, i do think it's significant. And in the great ox poem, one of the few poems that the gods are actively doing something, excluding kalevala poems, there are variation of the poem where the butcher is either Virankannos or Ukko, sometimes both.
Wishes from magical Finland! I'm 100% finnish and my both grandmothers could do the magic things the time they lived. I think its going on and its coming from the mothermilk as well. And I love dark jokes by the way😅. Your channel is great. Please, make some video about varjags...they were pretty much finnish old vikings. Usually we though that there were no vikings in finland, but originally we were the first varjags before the vikings. It would be cool to learn more about them. You rock! Thanks for your channel. Kippis!❤🇫🇮
Thank you so much for this “cousin”. 😂 Am largely Finnish and have been sadly lacking in my connection to the biggest part of my ancestry. But this explains so much! 🖤🖤🖤
My Finnish paternal haplogroup is the one that characterizes the descendants of "Vikings". And on my maternal side King Thorri Snærsson, of Kvenland is my 39th great grandfather and Eystein Ivarsson «the Noisy» Glumra is my 33rd great grandfather. So, Eirik «Blood-axe» Haraldsson, King in Norway, wis a distant cousin on my maternal line
Thank you for the very interesting video. Few points though. On genetics, we also have to remember the mixing of Scandinavians. The recent genetics study of Scandinavia showed that a) during the Viking Age both Sweden and Norway were "danisized", genetically, for example Viking Age Gotlanders and Uplanders were in many respect closer to modern Finns than modern day Swedes. I think the reason for this is the ancient pan-Scandinavian hunter gatherer cultures' genes; and b) Scandinavians have been heavily mixed by central Europeans, especially Germans, in the Middle Ages. This I understood to have been strongest in Sweden Also, on the West Coast of Finland there lived people speaking proto-Germanic and Germanic languages but they changed their language to Finnic languages 1500-2500 years ago. Thus, there were strong genetic and cultural ties between these regions regardless of difference in languages. The most recent research considers that the language shift to have had bigger impact than the migration. However, also many Sami people shifted their language (and lifestyle) to Finnish, especially after Viking Age, so that admixture is more recent. In any case it is hard if not impossible to distinguish a sami from a Finn living in the same region. I guess it is the same in Northern Norway.
You may be interested in Mikko Moilanen (Ph.D. in Archaeology and a trained blacksmith by apprenticeship), although his publications and popularisations are mostly in Finnish. His doctoral thesis "Marks of Fire, Value and Faith" deals with "Finnish Late Iron Age swords with ferrous inlays". According to his research 400 Viking Age swords have been discovered in Finland so far, 31 of those are Ulfberth swords. By comparison, there are 500 Viking Age swords discovered in Sweden, 17 of which are Ulfberths. 44 Ulfberths in Norway and if I recall correctly 2500 Viking Age swords in total. Of course, this is just a tally of discoveries, but it also suggests that the previous impression of poverty stricken Finland may have to be re-evaluated.
"To give a number, there are a total of 677 catalogued complete swords, blades and blade fragments (Fig. 2). This figure includes all finds from mainland Finland, ceded Karelia and the Åland Islands. In addition, only double-edged blades were taken into consideration, which means that scramasaxes and single-edged swords, which are sometimes hard to distinguish from each other, are excluded. Of all these 677 collection numbers, 18 have been found in the territory of ceded Karelia, whereas 62 are from the Åland Islands. The number of finds from the Åland Islands includes those catalogued in the Åland Museum, although these were not examined or radiographed due to practical reasons. 44 The number of separate hilt parts without any intact blade is 197, seven of which are from ceded Karelia and five from the Åland Islands. Altogether the number of swords and sword parts is 874 from the studied area. www.utupub.fi/…/10024/119919/diss2016Moilanen.pdf…"
Thorir Hundr, his mother was Sapmi. He knew how to use the shamans mushroom (fly agaric) to adjust his bodies' vibratory frequency. He wasn't just a good warrior chieftain he was also a shaman, of sorts. I dream of him, it used to be often when I was younger. My family is from north of Tromso, they were Sapmi/Norse mix, which is common.
Did you check in to the bock saga from finland ??? love your channel btw ! will keep and eye and ear ready for your up coming video´s hugs from Denmark
You're somewhat mixing between talking about actual Finns of the time (Finns, Kvens, Tavastian and Karelian tribes) and the Sami, who were also called "Finns". The confusion stems from different Norse populations referring to the groups differently. Swedes referred to southwestern Finns from Finland as "Finns" specifically, due to their close proximity and contact, while Sami were called "Lapps". The other Finnish tribes also got their own names among the Swedish Norse. Norwegians referred to the Sami as "Finns" and the actual Finns they encountered as "Kvens". Danes were likely a mix of both terminologies. The actual Finns largely lived similarly to the Norse and Balts in settled communities practicing mainly agriculture for their nutritional needs. And they had the same technology and would have resembled their neighbours across the sea for the most part. Even from appearance, the ancestors of Finns had been mixing with groups like the Balts before they migrated to Finland around 2000 years ago. That ancient Baltic mixing is still what contributes very much to Finnish genetics today. Discoveries from burials and graves of suspected local Finnish elite, warriors and perhaps chiefs/kings, also show long distance trade and wealth, with links to central Sweden, Latvia/Lithuania and even as far east as the western slopes of the Ural mountains. Evidence, such as fewer precious metals like silver and gold and less iron being used in things like shields becoming less common, also suggests that the Finnish tribes were more wealthy and developed during the Swedish Vendel period and early Viking Age (from 500s to early/mid 800s) than they were for the rest of the Viking Age and going into the "Crusader period" in the 1100s to early 1300s. Tacitus' description therefor doesn't really fit the ancestors of Finns, even if it came centuries earlier. But Tacitus also never saw the Finnoi with his own eyes and likely got the description through tons of second, third, fourth and so on accounts and tons of translations between tribes, plus he was a "civilized" Roman. At the time of Tacitus, the proto-Finns mostly lived south of the Gulf of Finland in Estonia and the Sami lived in Finland and Scandinavia. The ancestral Sami of the time more fit the description of wild forest dwellers largely sustaining themselves on hunting and gathering, although some Sami had started to become fishermen and more settled at the time, but most still lived a more nomadic life and would continue to do so for centuries. And sources describing venturing into the far north to meet with a "Finn" shaman or something of the sort would almost always mean the Sami rather than Finns.
You write good points. On another note, most Swedes today are quite oblivious of how the actual Finns (not the Sami) have developed the Sweden of current geography. For instance, Finns were very proficient at kaskiviljely, opening forest, burning and agricultivating it, so Finns settled unpopulated forest areas north from Sweden's midline i.e. they made it habitable. They had Finnish speaking communities in those areas for centuries while the Sami were furthest up north.
@Finnic Patriot Most recent theories based on placenames and such suggest that the Finnish language didn't arrive to Finland until some time between 500-1000 CE. Many of the placenames in southwestern Finland predate this and have a clearly indo-european root, hich wouldn't make sense if they'd originally been named by Finnish speakers. However I also don't think Finns "adopted" the language, rather that there was a migration wave of Finnish-speakers who mixed in with the prior populace and their language stuck with the following generations.
Hear, hear! This is what I suspected, too, when Norse Magic and Beliefs started to talk about a Norse woman sent to Northern Finland to learn some magic. It sounded like she was sent to amongst Samis, rather than Finns. Also, Finnish tribes during the late Viking period were heavily dependent on agriculture and as I have understood it, its level was pretty much as advanced as it was in Scandinavia. So being "hundreds of years" behind from Swedes and Norwegians does not sound quite right to me.
@@Anakunus The Finnish tribes of the early medieval period and traditional "Viking Age" period, and their ancestors for millennia before, were indeed very much accustomed to agriculture. The oldest words and concept relating to both farming and animal husbandry date to around 2000 BCE, roughly when proto-Indo-Iranian was spoken just to the south of the Volga region and the ancestor groups of Finns. The only thing the Norse might have had an edge in compared to the Finnish tribes was societal organization, since they managed to form into their own kingdoms during the viking age or shortly after it in the case of Sweden. Although even in their "unified" states, local leaders of territories within the kingdom remained very much autonomous and had quite a bit of power. If Finland had been left alone instead of being slowly engulfed by both Sweden and Novgorod, I think it's very likely that the western tribes and eastern tribes would have developed stronger states similar to those around them. Especially when Christianity had trickled in gradually for some time and would have likely taken over like it did in Scandinavia, allowing for better unity in those realms. But this edge over the Finnish tribes when it came to proper states wasn't really a thing during the Viking Age itself, rather after it when Sweden started expanding east under the supposed pretext of crusading non-Christians and even then, it's believed Sweden only gained real control over Finland around a century after the first supposed "crusade" into Finland took place around the 1150s. Unfortunately, we have basically nothing when it comes to documentation of the Finnish societal organization of the time, but there's much more written on the Estonians roughly around the same time and words for land divisions, communities etc. are shared between the two. And we know Estonia was divided into multiple different "counties" ("maakond" in Estonian, "maakunta" in Finnish) ruled by elders, who were likened to kings by chroniclers during the crusades into the Baltic. I believe the Estonian term for these elders is "vanem", which is a cognate to modern Finnish "vanhempi", meaning parent. Both are derived from the word for old, "vana/vanha". The Germanic derived "kuningas" would have also been in use. It's also likely that these leaders of the different territories were elected rather than being inherited and they held onto their power through being able to project that power. These leaders also likely had very little actual control over the lesser "chiefs" of smaller land divisions, unless they really forced their rule on them militarily or deepened ties through things like marriage. But as I said, none of this is concrete on Finland's part and most is speculation on clues such as words, placenames, archeology etc. and what we know about Estonia during the 12th and 13th centuries.
As a Finnish woman, I'm just learning why I have so much magic, thank you for explaining. I don't think it's something I could teach a person to do, but I do help my children to understand the gift. We are something else.
Nice! I get a "kick" out of your down to earth manner of speaking. You crack me up! I can imagine an interesting conversation with you over some beers. lol. I listen to your videos because I used to play a war game & went by the name "Thordis." Also, did my mt DNA & found hidden somewhere in the past there is Finnish markers. Oddly, my Dad also has Scandinavian (Germanic) DNA, but my Mom's is more specific. Even my birth first & middle names juggled around spells Thordis, only 2 letters left out. (Dad's Mom's name, she was a short lady.) My Mom seems to intuite things sometimes, occasionally to the point of "nosiness!" I know I often dream dreams about things that foretell something coming, a fact or a warning. A young woman said I was a witch. I just laughed. I'm no witch. I just enjoy being tuned to nature. More congenial to get along with usually. I am not sure I was born with Sisu, but I do have quick, precise reactions like a cat. I prefer to avoid confrontations, but if I must...my opponent knows they tangled with the wrong person. That surprise "kayo punch" gets them every time.
I remember leaving the church as soon as I could (age 18) because the whole "christianity" always felt foreign to me. I have instead had this weird unexplainable connection to the nature especially the forests (walking in a dark forest especially in the middle of winter ect you can just sense some primal power coming from within) and I think it's really intriguing knowing the heritage of the Finnish people. I love our ancestry and feel like we still have a lot of that nature respect and spirituality inside us eventhough it sometimes needs to be searched deeper from within.
I also resigned from Christian church due to tax benefits. But Christianity has never felt foreign to me. despite being me being edgy teenager. Over the years I have grown to admire Christianity especially the Lutheran branch of it. Because it was Lutheran priest who wrote codified Finnish language also we reached in 17th century high literacy rating. It was also Lutheran priest who inspired Adam Smith greatly his name was Anders Chydenius. Every religion creates a society of its image. We became part of the western culture when we adopted Christianity. Christianity civilized us more than pagan religion could ever do.
I am German (using my partner's account right now) and I recently found that my DNA is 20% Swedish and 10% Norwegian, which did come as a surprise, although it's also exciting!
As a Finn quite frankly I don't think we have anything to do with the vikings, but you got the whole thing still going with the necklace and the symbols on those little flags, so keep it up 👍
I'm a Finn and I enjoyed this so much! It is sad how little we know about our history and religions before Christianity, because like you said, we were culturally behind and nobody was there to write it down. All of oral tradition almost died too, probably because we more like tribes and didn't have sense of nationality under the rule of Sweden & Russia. Our holy groves have been turned to churchyards and we have been forced to forget our traditional magic... Luckily viking sagas managed to preserve some bits and pieces.
mitä museovirasto piilottelee? miksi he sulkevat löydökset telkien taakse? miksi he salaavat?
That is because we finns are not actually very homegenous group of people. Every tribe is bit different from eachother. There is huge genetic difference between western and eastern finns. Ancient finnish tribes HATED eachother. There was many bloody tribal wars between different finnish tribes. For example Tavastians and Savonians didn't like eachother. Not one bit.
This is pretty much the biggest reason why Finns lacked the national identity. They saw themselves more like small tribes but not as one big nation.
@@perkele8806 No tietysti ihmiset on pidettävä erossa totuudesta kaikilla elämänaloilla, sitähän mediakin tekee päivittäin. Koko historiankirjoius ja kaikki virallinen on pelkkää sepitystä. Sillä tavalla hallitaan. Myös suomalaisiin kuningaskuntiin suhdaudutaan pelkkinä myytteinä vaikka ulkomaisia lähteitä löytyy
@@perkele8806 No pitää katsoa kuka virastoa pyörittää. Mahtaako kolonialismi jatkua yhä edelleen. Miksi pakkoruotsi ym alistus. Asiat yhdistyy aika helposti kun hieman raottaa verhoa
@@NordicWiseguy they still visit each other to fight it out 😑
The Finns are my favorite Europenas as well, for so many reasons. Totally humble, calm and unpretentious, but arguably some of the most bad-ass fighters that have ever lived, when they get pushed into it. The Finns never seemed to have started shit with anyone, but anyone that's ever messed with them has paid for it. Ask Russia. Their ability to consume alcohol is ltruly impressive. And their profanity is beyond compare in its hilarity and sheer vulgarity.
The only Finnish person I have come across could drink a Scot under the table!
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 At breakfast.
@@TN-bp2cf when finn's drink we gonna drink for waste. in middle europe they just drink few
What makes Finns badass warriors may be the gene mutation found only in Finnish people that makes them aggressive, and violent. 😎
@@Skognisse yes that is true and bad mix with alcohol :D
Your kind words about us Finns, gives warmth to my newly renovated heart. Broder. Skål!🇫🇮🇧🇻
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Christian flags we see
Ihan kaikkea ei kannata kohteliaisuutena ottaa. Hän tykkää muokata historiaa norjalaisittain kivaksi.
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Interesting. My wife is a Finn and I'm a Navajo. Spiritually, there appears to be much in common. Really dig your channel.
We share common ancestors in East Siberia. 11 women and 2 of them were from Finnish tribes and 1 from Nepalian tribes walked to lands of west before Ice Age, these made "Americans". My grand mother is from this tribe and is connected to "Americans" very highly...
Just to respect our tribes. How you call your land? It sure hell is not America.
I've understood that's why Finn's and natives both have alcohol issues. Can't just take one glass.. prone to alcoholism. They share the same blood types or something
Possibly. Us 'Indins don't have the enzyme that breaks down ETOH alcohol . Now, that's not for ALL Native Americans, but for most. Including my tribe. And is also why haven't had any alcohol in 36 years. @@karlkuoppala6555
I’m Lakota and Finnish. Father is Lakota and mother’s family is from Finland.
Dine' Bikeyaa' = Home of the people. @@roensoul
As a Finn I salute you sir! 🫡 You're research is spot on as always. Finnish paganism has been my interest for a long time but never have I heard anyone talking about these things with such passion and knowledge. So thank the allfather for a one crazy Norwegian who always makes my day perfect when a new video pops out. We Finns fought tribal wars with ourselves since the bronze age. So we only united against when some assholes came with longboats from the sea and tried to raid our villages etc. We still have high hills overlooking lakes that were used as a warning system by burning bond fires just like Gondor did calling Rohan for help in the Lord of the rings 🪓
Here's some extra info about Vikings and Finns:
On a saga Finnish area is mentioned as "land of fires" too.
Finns used a warning/signal bonfires on the highest points along the sea shores what gave time to prepair and gather men against raiders/invaders and weaker people; elders, children and women had time to escape to forests.
Many times Finnish areas wasn't easy targets for raiding and one reason was those bonfires.
Also second most viking age swords are found in Finland after Norway, so im sure they were capable of defending themselves, especially combined with ambush tactics and using forests as an advantage.
According to saga of "Battle of Herdaler" Norwegian viking leader Olav Haraldsson and his men (later king of Norway) went raiding in Finland;
Finns escaped or pretended like they escaped to deep forests and vikings gave up by chasing them to inland.
They returned to the shore/ships, but Finns ambushed them there, Olav almost died on the battle and they had to escape and sail on the storm.
Finns used the retreat and ambush tactic even on a war against soviets.
Im a history freak by myself and i've read that most of the viking era Vikings had good relations with Finns/Karelians and were mostly trading partners, not enemies.
There was more benefits being friendly with Finns because they got most of the fur stocks from Finnish tribes by trading and the locals knowledge of further connections was important too.
Vikings were aggressive towards Baltics, but with a Finnic people it was quite the opposite, most likely because they saw them so useful 🙂
Furs were expensive valuables on south where vikings sold them to muslim silver.
Finns and Norse even had common settlements on Finnish shores and especially on Karelia/Lake Ladogan area.
Finns went also trading to Sweden in Mälaren and Sigtuna areas.
Viking route to Novgorod and far south to muslim areas went alongside side of the Finnish shores through Karelian isthmus and Lake Ladoga was like a main gate to Olkhov (Nevajoki) river what lead to Novgorod and south.
Almost forgot, but Vikings accually needed Finns/Karelians help and knowledge when they were searching new lands on the east/south.
Locals knew the river routes and connections, but they also helped as an translators between vikings and slavic people.
Vikings also changed their longboats to smaller Karelians river boats at Staraja Ladoga (Laatokanlinna), because rivers past that are shallow and narrow at many points.
Laatokanlinna - Aldeigjuborg, the first Swedish settlement in present NW Russia, founded in 753 according to dendrochronolgy.
Yes, we used to do this in Karelia in the old days
@@magnusnyberg3512 Where does the information come from, what exactly are the Swedes? The fortress was founded on the territory, which was already inhabited by various Finno-Ugric peoples. And the most ancient layer is the Finno-Ugric one.
@@kainptz I don't recall my response, but we're probably talking about Aldeigjuborg - present-day Staraja Ladoga - the place where Rurik (Rörek) started out. Dendrochronology shows that the first Svear houses were built in 753. You can read a lot about Rurik and the town on the net, or else in any biggish Nordic library.
@@magnusnyberg3512 Yes, that's right, Staraya Ladoga is Rurik's stronghold and the ruling elite there was scandinavian. However, I meant the population itself. The most ancient archaeological layers belong to the finno-ugric peoples (and even, if I'm not mistaken, there were Saami finds).
I'd actually love to hear more about Finnish history. Would definitely enjoy another video further exploring their history and culture.
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We have really foggy history because almost nothing was written down before christians came here and then our history and myths were christianised so its even more foggy and fragmented
They raped and killed people
Kelevala is as close as you can get. My dads Finnish and thats who promted me to read it.
read the Kalevella
My father faught in the winter war. And our family farm in Vipuri was taken by Russia. My dad lived to 95. He always mourned for the farm he was born on. It was our farm for a thousand years.
I feel pretty happy that no matter what has happened or who happens to own the forests I roamed as a child, I can take a bus and visit it any time I would like. This reminded me to be very grateful.
My great grandpa came to the US in 1903, unfortunately the traditions and language didn't survive the generations of separation and now my family only has the name left. But at least I can learn more as info gets clearer. I'm sorry for your family's loss, I can't imagine losing something so closely tied to your family and ancestors.
@@alexanderwuolukka8333your last name is written very old timely. Now days it wouldnt have a w it would have a v
@@akuhiiri6873 Yeah, I was able to learn that much when I got older, but for at least 3 generations we've pronounced it with the English W sound at the begining. Most of my older relatives passed when I was young so I only ever heard how my dad and grandmother pronounced it.
German father , Finnish mother. growing up in Minnesota. Dad loved the outdoors , sauna and of course his Finnish wife.
Loads of finnish ancestry in Minnesota!
Sauna is also kinda funny "nyanse" in that Finnish "indian" style culture. American Indians have also "hikimaja". "Sweat ´shag´" (dunno what they are called in english / among American Indians. Hot tents maby? :D... So: Indians go to hot tent, add steam and smoke drugs. Wonder does Siberian tribes have had somekind of Sauna?
And could Sauna be somekind of mark how triibes has mixed trough Siber, and has those other aboriginal tribes in the world, who has Saunas, something to do with Finnish sauna..? Interesting.
@@northscrow9316 i’m sorry what are you trying to say?
@@lasselahti4056yes the native tribes of america still use the "sweat lodges" that you mention. a separate tent from the tipi to build steam in
Thank you for a very informative video. I have Finnish ancestry and would definitely enjoy learning more in further videos about their history and culture.
I think it's kind of "Nordicversial" that today we all love the Finns 🙂
They are badass, really friendly, and even if they talk that strange language, they feel familiar to be around.
They also have a great humor, that I as a Dane is totally compatible with 😀
I've been with them as a civilian and as a soldier.
They are skilled.
And they have some beautiful women !
❤️ I love this comment. We Finns love you too
😹 great comment! Im finnish. At least what it comes to my genetics, family members, and where i ve luved most of my life. Though i never felt like part of this nation and culture 🙀 i feel more like you Erik, they ve got great humor and i feel respect for them many ways 😼
Our beauty ages well too, as does our humor. 👵🏻🤣
I’m a little late to this but I love you danes. Working in a danish company I’ve had a couple of insanely nice trips to Denmark. Such a friendly and welcoming people and just as rowdy as us, you make for great drinking buddies!
Latest trip was a company birthday and we had employees from all around the world. It was awesome sitting at a table with all the nordic bros literally all: us finns, danes, norwegians, swedes and icelanders. And like you said we do speak a language none of you will ever understand at all but despite there being a ”language barrier” there is no cultural barrier whatsoever. We don’t speak a similar language but you don’t feel foreign at all. We speak about the same things, all we know is the same stuff. And we grow up around alot of the same things in all the nordic countries. I think mostly it’s the very relaxed social culture that is just so similar in all the nordics.
Cheers. While because of the language thing I find Scandinavians even more relaxed amongst each other, there's definitely a strong Nordic cultural love connection there. Personally, while you'd think our connection to the Swedes (ie. the Sweden Swedes, not the Swedish-speaking Finnish minority since they're just as Finnish as anyone else, really) would be the closest, I tend to prefer Danes on average :D And Icelanders, too!
Maybe it's more of a cliche, and even simply due (to a small extent) to the silly-sounding rikssvenska accent, but the average Swede often feels a bit uptight and somehow pretentious to me. And maybe because of the common history and profound effect Swedes (and later Finland-Swedes) have had on our culture, society, our elites, history, political and legal institutions, even the birth of Finnish nationalism, I can't help but to feel a bit irritated every time it turns out that while your regular Swedes are friendly and all, they usually know next to nothing about Finland* and can even appear a bit condescending in various minor ways... Not that regular Danes would be any less ignorant - but lets say it's more understandable.
But yeah, maybe it's a bit personal too, but I tend to get along with Danes a bit better. Fun company, no bullshit dark humor. Also, I grew up loving von Trier (earlier the better) and Vinterberg, for example. Given how easy it is in writing, I just wish I could understand even like half of what you speak, tho' 🧏😁
But how I ended up watching this video, I don't know. Is this guy serious? Magic? What's wrong with people? Also, a lot of his non-imaginary "Finnish" prehistory (just using "Finnic" half the time instead would've made him seem less obviously brain-dead btw) is way off, but I can't be bothered - there's always one more person wrong on the internet.
(*) I mean, in principle, following all things Finnish would be super-easy because of our Swedish-language media sphere. I know it's not super-interesting, though, but you should at least know something about the common history etc., so you don't end up, for example, complementing a natively Swedish-speaking Finn about their good Swedish, or switching to English because of their "foreign" accent! 😂
These are some of my favorite videos that you do. I know you THINK you're boring but it is told in a way that sounds like you're talking to me, it is relatable and digestible.
There is actually quite a lot simularity in the old gods of Finns and vikings. Ukko was a god of thunder, storms and rain. He wields a hammer or axe. You can see the connection 😁 Also some stories tell that finns were feared and respected but also hired for raids cause they could raise winds or storms so they were good for sailing long distances as long as you stayed on the right side with them. As you said you dont want to get to the wrong side. There are couple hundred thousand soviet troops on the border few meters deep as proof 🤔
Niinpä...
And now Russians are at the border again, and they're gonna find out what happens when the snow starts speaking Finnish.
I hope there’s a movie someday like the Northman but from a Finnish perspective. Those dudes were warriors from day one I’d like to see them in cinema. Especially seeing a deep dive into the Finnish magic practices.
The Finnish deities, and Finnic deities as a whole, being similar to Norse ones is rather due to influence from the proto-Baltic people rather than interaction with the later Norse. And since both Baltic and Norse originated from Indo-Europeans, their pantheons were similar due to sharing the same origin.
"He wields a hammer or axe."
Yesn't!
Ukonvaaja is an axe-hammer.
I am a purebred Finn living in So.Calif. Your video spoke to my soul hopefully to remind me of what I am. Peaceful, loving nature, but if messed with...well...things happen. I wish I knew how old Finns controlled the winds. On windy days, as soon as I get outside with my kite...no wind....
Don't forget Ulfberht swords 😎 "unique swords with the inscription +VLFBERHT+ on the blade, dated between the 9th and 11th centuries. In the Viking Age, the privilege of having such a sword belonged exclusively to the elite, because an Ulfberht sword’s unmatched strength could only be had at a high cost. Norway and Finland are where the largest numbers of these swords have been found."
I have Finnish ancestors and enjoyed learning about this kind of history.
I wish Grandpa could see this video! He loved telling stories about his dad,who came from Finland to USA. :)
In the early 1900's? Where from, do you know? My granddads uncle moved to Minnesota in the early 1900's :)
Did you hear about the U.S. court case that allowed Finns to get citizenship? In 1908 their citizenship was contested because they were deemed “Mongols” and “China-Swedes.” A U.S. judge had to legally declare them white so they could get citizenship. the Judge’s name was William Cant.
respect from finland❤️🙏🏼been waiting this video very long. this information have been lied so long
Respect is earned not just given primate and your superstitious graffiti is common
Wow, you have done a lot of research on the Finns, We never talked about the Viking age at school so widely during history lessons and the Finnish national history prior to the middle ages was pretty much ignored in the late 80s and early 90s when I was in school, a very good and educational video that was fun to watch, your English is phenomenal and easy to listen, looking forward to learn some more, Good job and Greetings from Finland!
When i was kid, they actually taught christianity in schools. Teach how to believe, how absurd is that? And that is how history is suppressed. I resigned from church when i was in legal age to do it, after i(and many others) was forced into it on birth. It never felt even real, and i rebelled against it through my school years.
Yes in school we didnt talk about vikings in Finland, when it was told finns were not vikings and vikings had not much anything to do with Finland, when attacked elsewhere mostly, but I did not know this finns magic thing, when heard other nomadic tribes, like in native america also practice magic and that was funny this how the swedish kings always wanted the most beutiful woman, when maybe they appreciated finnish women beuty more, than the typical swedish woman beuty.
Unluckily we are not taught about our real history. Just the history about some godly like man not even close to us. We are still not fully converted to christianity as we have pagan ways.
As a Finnish woman who always thought that what the heck ..there MUST be vikings in Finland no one talks about..Thank you VERY much for this video 😍❤️🇫🇮
Most of the nations around Baltic sea practiced raiding. Its just that Scandinavians turned into a damn religious practice. Most of the early medieval period of what is modern Finland was battle grounds for tribal warfare as testified by ridiculous number of "viking swords" found here only surpassed by the number found in Norway.
Jep, tosi yllättävää että joku persu haluaa uskoa suomalaisten olleen viikinkejä ja joku mahtava kuningaskunta. Suur-Suomikin varmaan tulossa pian? Nää ei ikävä kyllä oo vaan uskon asioita vaan täytyy luottaa arkeologisiin ja historiallisiin faktoihin. Tosiaan mistään muualta noita viikinkiesineitä tai -hautoja ei löydy kuin rannikolta missä kävivät tekemässä ryöstelemässä ja joskus tekemässä kauppaa.
Technicality finns are not vikings
@@johnnyfallen87 no, it's their pets and creatures they throw breadcrumbs and domesticate and then lasso
@@johnnyfallen87true
You should take a look at the Viking age on Estonian lands (Particularly Saaremaa aka Ösel) - they have the second richest findings after Gotland and the oldest and biggest Viking ship burial called Salme. It's definitely gonna be interesting to research. Btw spiritually, Estonians aren't far from Finnish people. Even with different recent history, they still share natural way of human life because of their hardship. Estonians and Finns don't have much to do other than roast each other with dark humor, it's a national sport.
Other than making fun of the accent we Finns don't really roast Estonia as far as I know.
As a Finn I would be ecstatic to hear about Estonian peoples role in this saga, for to me I have always felt great brotherhood to you my Estonian brothers and sisters and would love to see the historical differences on how our nations divided before the soviet times (and of course times before imperialism) that most of us know/don't know about these days.
really great video, it was great to hear stories from the Viking era as a Finn 🇫🇮 A lot of Viking swords and jewelry have been found in Finland recently when amateur metal hunting has become more common.
it would be great to hear more stories from Finland after the Viking Age, I hope you manage to make a new video about them.
A Christian flag yes we see
@@matimus100 Old finnish flag was red with golden lion on it. The lion are from semi mythical swedish kings folke konungen.
Over 400 Viking age swords have been found in Finland at a rate of roughly 10 more finds each year. A large portion are also +Ulfberht swords.
Finns probably both bought and manufactured swords. This is not something poor hand to mouth communities do.
Some years back it was estimated those best swords would be worth (to the average person) £24000 (a years wage) in high end and £2000 in cheap end. After all the inflation that comparison needs adjustment.
The smith is a central part of Finnish mythology as well, so all in all we can speculate that society was a combination of practical primitive and carpentry technology together with excellent knowledge and work of iron technology.
@@haliaeetus8221 I was metal detecting with my brother near one of the dried out ancient tibutaries of Aura river this summer. Not 30mins in till I found the first sword blade, hilt and pommel. Countless boat rivets(ship burial site apparently), skillfully made jewelry, spearheads... No ordinary people were buried in ships. Metal detector was beeping nonstop. The place turned out to be an ancient burial ground.
Finland is FULL of places like this, grounds full of mysteries and untold history.
@@Siemenkarju22 WOW, Niilo, thank you for sharing, that is absolutely AMAZING! And what a hobby you and your brother have: Revealing the secrets of history! You guys are just fantastic.
Like most Minnesotans, I have Scandinavian roots. A Finnish grandmother and Danish grandfather. Thanks for keeping my past alive and relevant through your information!
Swedish/Finn/Saami here, I want to thank you as well for showing interest in our past. A lot of people do not care, so it is always nice to see someone who has an interest in where we came from. I also have a decent amount of American family in Minnesota, us Nords seem to litter the area lol.
"Your" past. Lol.
@@billywiththebulgingbaloonb5105 Har jag berättat ett skämt? I don’t get what’s funny? “Our past” is in reference the the history of the culture and heritage of our ancestors.
@@Vaetki I was talking to the Amerimutt.
@@billywiththebulgingbaloonb5105 haha oh okay. Amerimutt can’t be too terrible, I’m a Euromutt lol.
As a finnish I found this to be very interesting! Would love to hear stories about us finnish being the last pagans of Europe.
That's right. Finland is still a Heathen country though and should be proud of that.
Nice
Finnish pagan here 👋🏻! Since I was a small child I was interested in old believes, old traditions and magic what old relatives practiced in my family. I found Vikings when I was 11, long before internet, TV shows etc. Same time I start to read Native Americans history. I have found many similarities between old Finn / Norse and Native Americans. I wish to see more this kind of videos!
I really respect the work you doing in here. Telling about history in the way not professors cant tell. All of your videos so well done and interesting. Having talent of making ''forgotten'' history alive and interesting is just amazing. BIG SHOUT OUT FROM FINLAND! BROTHER FROM THE ANOTHER MOTHER
Thank you for this video. I’m FINNISH and didn’t know all this. 🇫🇮
Christian flag we see
I doubt the average Finn cares about history overall in this scale so...
@@heh9392 I was told that there was no vikings in finland
@@Hnkka he mentioned very briefly the timeline that it wasn’t the Viking era/ time, anyway the map 🗺helps clear things up.
@@heh9392 You'd be surprised. Finns care very much of their own history. Though this wave of globalism is pulling all that away.
Thank you for this fascinating video. Some of the stories you told, I’ve heard before but I was really astounded how much Finnish magic had influence back in the Viking era. My maternal grandparents are of Finnish Lappish origin and they and their parents still used the old - nowadays mostly lost - magic (wisdom). They might have used it to protect their life stocks or for good luck in hunting, for healing or to find out where their reindeers were or why the salmon wouldn’t rise up the rivers. They did their magic still very recently. I remember my grandfather telling me a true story how when he was a young boy he would often cut himself accidentally with a knife or hurt himself with an axe when cutting wood. So his uncle did some magic on him and told my grandfather that “from now on, no iron or steel never again make your blood spill”. Long story short, my grandfather believed until his dying days that his uncle’s magic saved his life in the 2nd WW against the Soviets (Russians). And he was part of a special troop, so called Long Distance Patrol, twice decorated for bravery.
It is easier to be brave if you are invulnerable. My grandpa was serving in a similar unit, long range recon behind enemy lines. Wounded twice during the wars. He should have got himself one of dem spells too.
@@inso80 In my grandpa's case, more plausible explanation for his fearlessness was probably adhd. He really feared nothing, except wasps. 😄
@@tuijasaari1463 Considering how I am, I doubt my grandpa was neurotypical either.
There is still celebration in southern finland called "muinaistulien yö" (night of the ancient fires) which is celebrated because of fires that warned mainland of upcoming viking raid.
Same in Coastal Estonia! 🤝Muinastulede öö
Last summer in here was huge fireworks.
That's a modern tradition, you don't have to look further than the Finnish Wikipedia to get to know it was established only in 1992.
More on Finland & the Finns, please. Kiitos!
My Great Grandfather came to The States, from Finland, he was of Swedish descent.
Thanks for this video.
Mine too. DNA now shows mine came from Aland Island and Korsholm
This was great, I'm looking forward to watching more of your content. Greetings from Helsinki.
Great vid and learned a lot! As a Finn I really appreciated your words and I really think that we, as a nordics, share a brotherhood and a lots of love for ya Norsks as well!
My great-grandparents were off-the-boat Finns. They had passed before I was born, and my grandmother completely Americanized and we never were introduced to the cultures, not including saunas, of course. Thank you for sharing this; I plan on exploring my roots a bit closer now.
Thank you for this video. I have been trying to find more information about Finnish history to learn more about my ancestors, and you actually list sources unlike most other TH-camrs so I know which direction to go next. I'd love to learn more.
Great video Nordic brother! You got yourself a new acolyte from Finland🤠
I want to add to that Origin part, when you say nobody really know where Finno-Uralic people came from, the N1c Haplogroup is believed to Originate from Indo-China about 15,000-20,000 Years ago. There are some maps showing even the immigration route. From Indo-China, to Machuko, and from Siberia to the Urals and from Urals to baltics and then to Nordics.
also i wouldn't say Finns were weaker and easy targets for Vikingr raids.
>9th Centry Kvens raid Sweden. Story of Norma-Gest tells of raids done by Kvens to Sweden. Ohthere of Halogaland tells of skirmishes between Finns and Norwegians. (Finnic Victory)
>1228, Finns make campagin against Novhgorod. Finns make a campaign to lagoda with over 2000 men (Karelian Finnic Victory)
>1226 Karelians make annother expedition to Norway with Novgorod. Karelians make another expedition against Norwegian settlements in Northern Scanndivania withNovgorod (Finnic Victory)
>1253 Karelians make a raid againsnt Germans, Karelians raid against Germans in the area of Narca (Finnic Karelian Victory)
>1257 Karelians make expedition to Sweden, Karelians make a devastating campagin to Sweden whgich lead King Valdemar to equest Pope Alexander IV to commence a crusade against them. (Finnic Victory)
>1284 Germans make campaign to Karelia. German warlord Trunda makes campaign by boats and ships to Karelia via river neva. His goal was the taxation of Karelians. Truda and his men are defeated at the mouth of the river by Novogrodians with the men of Staraya Lagoda on the 9th of September. (Finnic Victory)
>1241 Karelians ally with Novgorod against Germans in Koprye. Kareliasn, Ingrians and men from Straya Lagoda participate in campaign lead by Laexander Nevsky against Germans in the castle of Koporye. (Finnic Victory)
>1229 Finns proper fight to eradicate Christianity from their lands. Pope Gregory IX condems Gothland in his letter on 16. February for provoking Finns propher with weaponsm horses, ships and supplies which they use in their battle to eradicate Christian faith from their lands. (Finnic Victory)
>1189 Pillage of Sigtuna. Karelians (or Estonians) pillager the city on 12 july. The bishop of Uppsala and the Yarl are killed. (Finnic Victory)
>1008 Battle of Herdaler. Olaf II of Norway is defeated by Finns somewhere in Uusimaa. (Finnic Victory).
So it is safe to say that it was no easy raids and wars against Finnic tribes. Which by the way were very developed on human warfare, since being at war all the time with each others.
+ Finnish Pagans (some call them Baltic Vikings) attacked the Swedish capital of Sigtuna in 1187 and burned the city to the ground. This is the reason why the capital of Sweden moved further south to the small fishing village "Stockholmen", which later became Stockholm.
Citation needed. I would like to learn more abt these events
@@WombRaider_theoriginal if you are looking up the battles, use your search engine, they aren't hidden. Though not all of them are in English. If you are looking for the origin of N haplogroup well.. use your search engine. You can as plus search up the immigration routes of that haplogroup.
I am a Finnish Australian and my mum wad the only one who immigrated here from her family. We were indoctrinated but definitely felt we never really could follow religion. There was a big sense of believe what is true. We seek truth with determination. Thanks for sharing you wisdom on this topic ❤
Norseman: Never thought I die fighting side by side with a Finn
Finnishman: What about side by side with a friend
Norseman: ... Aye ... I can do that
Much love to our Northern Finnish Cousins
I am a finn, in Finland. I love your storytelling. Please contienue the story about finns.
Fun fact to those that don't know, he mentions a Finnish tribe known as ''Kvens'', in Norway a ''Kven/Kvæn'' is the word used to describe a Norwegian person who is part Norwegian and part Finnish, with a Finnish ancestry. (For example, a Norwegian with one of his/her parents being Finnish or part Finnish, or one or more Finnish grand or great grandparents, or otherwise having strong emphasis on Finnish ancestry in their bloodline.) Most commonly living in the far northern part of Norway, in the region known as ''Finnmark'', in the far north and far north-east of Norway, the region bordering Finland and the Barents Sea/North-East Norwegian Sea.
Wonder if there is a relation between Kvens and Kieven
@@Aervund Kieven as in the city Kiev from Ukraine? I have no idea, but I do know that the city of Kiev was established and created by the Vikings, much like the city of Dublin in Ireland also was.
One of the most brutal, and extensive witch huntings in the whole world took place in Finnmark. Probably something to do with the influence of Kvens, and the closeness of the Finns, and their magic.
@@Skognisse You mean the witch hunting period during the 1600s?
@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 Yes
Great video with great attention to details! Takk så mye bror og hilsen fra en Finnjaevel!
My family was pushed out of Karelia, but culturally Finnish. So they moved to the US and most were foresters. They were very environmentally conscious about foresting. Always take a tree, leave a tree.
Good video. Thank you so much. Finns are proud of their ancestry and history. Greetings from Finland👍!
Real history was erased and rewritten by sweeds last 200 years
While your point about 'living like beasts with nature' is a good one... to me it still sort of carries a slightly sour note. Living off of and together with nature doesn't need to mean that you are 'beastly' or 'behind'. It's a sort of simplicity. A denial of some of the things that 'civilization' brings - hoarding property or gold or other forms of wealth, fighting over it, building fortifications to protect what you own and fending off jealousy from others.
What if the Finns (myself being a descendant) just never wanted or needed those things? We had culture, we had crafts to the degree we needed and desired, we had sauna, we had the clean, varied nature, we had ourselves and our stories and our beliefs. What more do you need? And why?
Thank You for this. Very interesting. Would love to hear more stories about the relationships of The Norse & The Finns. Cheers from Finland! Kippis!
Love easy
Great video, thanks! As a native Russian I will allow myself one piece of advice. Do not call those finno-hungarian people as Russians. They will not be abused, of course, as we have mixed quite a bit, but Komi people like to be called Komi, for one instance :)
I 'm Finnish and into Vikings , history and magic. One guy from work once said I remind him of Floki. That was the coolest thing anyone has ever said about me as I recall . He was from Philiphines, which is cool in it's own right that a guy from the other side of the World knows his Vikings.
Good and interesting video. Here, have a like.
see one of Europe's first largest kingdoms and ruling houses was created by Finno-Ugric people. The first Hungarian kings were close to the Finns and not to today's Hungarian people.Here in Hungary, what happened was that the Finno-Ugric brought the peoples living here under their rule.
Swedish talking finn here. I learned a couple of years ago that my family has practiced magick for generations, without us realizing it was some old magick. 😂 We just thought it was a quirky family thing. It goes like this: Whenever someone loses a tooth, you throw the tooth into the fireplace. In the fireplace lives a magical creature (sorry it has a lot of names, can't remember what it was called!), who collects your teeth and he'll reward you, either with a new healthy tooth or a silver tooth. 😋 Spoiler alert: Never got silver teeth!
I thing there lots of old myths taught to children and you are so just to them that you dont recognise them to be paganism. Still i think if you are strong In your main values these other drops away.
I put mine under the pillow and in the morning there was a little bit of money and the tooth was gone.
@jslfcs6655 lol thats a tooth fairy
Finland have the second most amount of Ulfberht swords. More than 30 genuine ones. Norway have +40. This is very very interesting fact.
fun fact: hundreds of viking swords have been found from finland. if i remember correctly the number is 500. in the numbers of the swords finland is top 3 after sweden and norway. finland also has 5 ingelrii swords and 31 ulfberht swords. only norway has more of those rare swords
"To give a number, there are a total of 677 catalogued complete swords, blades and blade fragments (Fig. 2). This figure includes all finds from mainland Finland, ceded Karelia and the Åland Islands. In addition, only double-edged blades were taken into consideration, which means that scramasaxes and single-edged swords, which are sometimes hard to distinguish from each other, are excluded. Of all these 677 collection numbers, 18 have been found in the territory of ceded Karelia, whereas 62 are from the Åland Islands. The number of finds from the Åland Islands includes those catalogued in the Åland Museum, although these were not examined or radiographed due to practical reasons. 44 The number of separate hilt parts without any intact blade is 197, seven of which are from ceded Karelia and five from the Åland Islands. Altogether the number of swords and sword parts is 874 from the studied area. www.utupub.fi/…/10024/119919/diss2016Moilanen.pdf…"
You really do have a grip on Finnish Heathenism. I so appreciate your accuracy. No misinformation being spread here!
Such an interesting video. My hair is semi blonde on top, dark on the sides and my beard is black. Dark eyebrows. Family roots are in the lost part of Karelia that is Russia today. Exactly the same fate as Herson and other cities in Ukraine have met right now. Greetings from Finnish Karelia (Eastern Finland).
Imagine that………..another outstanding easy to understand video! Keep up the amazing work on all fronts
A Finnish historian told me the Finns had early warning system for Viking raiders. The raiders always came in from the south, so the first southern coastal village to spot raiders would make a huge bonfire. The next village up the coast would do the same as soon as they saw their neighbors' bonfire. And so on, all the way up the coast threatened by a raid. Forewarned is forearmed so this was a pretty effective defense. So them Finns were clever dudes! This historian also told me about Norse people going to Finns to learn magic. She was a pagan Finn herself.
I'm Norwegian but have always acted like a Finnish or Dutch girl. I can take it AND dish it out!
Yes. There is local museum here in Helsinki that has map showing the routes of those warning fires.
@@Taistelukalkkuna Fantastic, thanks for telling me. I'd love to see it when I go to Finland. What's the name of the museum?
You're right.
On a saga Finnish area is even mentioned as "land of fires".
Those warning/signal bonfires gave time to prepair and gather men against raiders/invaders and weaker people; elders, children and women had time to escape to forests.
Many times Finnish areas wasn't easy targets for raiding and one reason was those bonfires.
Also second most viking age swords are found in Finland after Norway, so im sure they were capable of defending themselves, especially combined with ambush tactics and using forests as an advantage.
According to saga of "Battle of Herdaler" Norwegian viking leader Olav Haraldsson and his men (later king of Norway) went raiding in Finland;
Finns escaped or pretended like they escaped to deep forests and vikings gave up by chasing them to inland.
They returned to the shore/ships, but Finns ambushed them there, Olav almost died on the battle and they had to escape and sail on the storm.
Finns used the retreat and ambush tactic even on a war against soviets.
Im a history freak by myself and i've read that most of the viking era Vikings had good relations with Finns/Karelians and were mostly trading partners, not enemies.
There was more benefits being friendly with Finns because they got most of the fur stocks from Finnish tribes by trading and the locals knowledge of further connections was important too.
Vikings were aggressive towards Baltics, but with a Finnic people it was quite the opposite, most likely because they saw them so useful 🙂
Furs were expensive valuables on south where vikings sold them to muslim silver.
Finns and Norse even had common settlements on Finnish shores and especially on Karelia/Lake Ladogan area.
Finns went also trading to Sweden in Mälaren and Sigtuna areas.
Viking route to Novgorod and far south to muslim areas went alongside side of the Finnish shores through Karelian isthmus and Lake Ladoga was like a main gate to Olkhov (Nevajoki) river what lead to Novgorod and south.
Edit: Forgot to mention that vikings accually needed Finns/Karelians help and knowledge when they were searching new lands on the east/south.
Locals knew the river routes and connections, but they also helped as an translators between vikings and slavic people.
Vikings also changed their longboats to smaller Karelians river boats at Staraja Ladoga (Laatokanlinna), because rivers past that are shallow and narrow at many points.
Im happy to see respectful Norwegian who doesn't overlook Finns and Finnish history and claim how "vikings were superior to others".
@@trumpjongun8831 Well, thanks! That's some great info there! My Finnish historian friend had studied the Vikings a lot, too, because, she said, the 2 cultures have such an intertwined history. She told me in the sagas, many of the "Finns" are probably the Norwegian Sami in Finmark. "Finn" in Old Norse appears to have referred to any Fenno-Urgaric person.
@@janelarson7065 Well we Norwegians also used big bonfires on top of the fjords to alert of incoming enemies, so I guess we share that with the Finns
I’m going to share this with my Finnish friends. Hey! Your room looks neat 👌🏻
7:55 I am finnish and I live in modern society but I absolutely feel that. I love how finns still today are just a little crazy and mysterious nation.
I’m so glad my dark humor was appreciated at some point in time by someone 😂
This is my favourite part of the Viking Saga: "The Finlanders
conjured up in the night, by their witchcraft, a dreadful storm
and bad weather on the sea" (Battle of Herdaler)
Liked and subscribed! You can tell you not only know a lot about this subject matter but rather enjoy sharing it.
'Finnish people look more swedish than swedish people today' 💀
Its true sadly
Is that why they had such a difficult time trying to come over to the US in the early 1900s? They were called China-Swedes and almost not allowed to get citizenship in the US. They literally had to be designated “white” by the Supreme Court in 1908 in order to get American citizenship in Missouri. There were so many people in the midwestern US calling them “Mongrels” becsuse they didn’t look “white.”
@@basicallyno1722 those are sami people. They live in far north of Sweden and Finland. Big blue/green eyed and blonde haired people are far from looking Chinese. So are tall guys with round big brown eyes and brown hair. Sami people only have those distinct eye lids which most Asians have.
They do not
And why is That,? ;)
It's nice to see that our country and it's not so known history and myths gets some attention at times 🙂 This video was great I enjoyed it, keep up the good work 😊 Ps. My favorite country is Norway for it's nature, people and it's history. I visit there every year and plan on maybe moving there someday.
The Fenni of Tacitus must be the ancient Finns. He writes, "...they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished." How Finnish!! The most content people of the planet...
Tacitus' description fits the proto-Sami more than it does the proto-Finns. At the time of Tacitus' writings, the proto-Finnic people were settled and practiced agriculture and had been doing so for a long time, even before they migrated into the region of the eastern Baltic. The proto-Sami on the other hand, due to their more northern migration, didn't pick up agriculture nor animal husbandry and remained largely as hunter-gatherers until the late Middle Ages/early Modern Period around the 1500s. Some Sami groups did however become settled due to picking becoming coastal fishermen along the northern Norwegian coastline during the Middle Ages. But then again, Tacitus never saw the Fenni with his own eyes and the description of them was passed on through different tribes and likely languages causing corruption of the original account. On top of all that, Tacitus as a Roman would have viewed this remote groups past even the Germanic tribes and further into the unknown as complete savages, even more so than the Germans.
Saami are what they called finn. This is why it is Finmark in Norway. Saami land. Tey called Suomi as finn too, but as the video said they said all uralics as finn.
Warms my savage Phinnish heart to hear a mention of us in so many of the old texts. +1+1+1 nice vidya!
Thank you for this very enlightening video from another Finn 👍🙏
Superstitious graffiti right here children 👆 very common aggression these days
I'm a finnish digital artist who likes vikings & norse mythology, as a finn its nice to learn about our "vikings",also all the spiritual stuff about finns is so damn cool
There's no doubt that Finnish Magic is alive and well. It has been passed through generations one after the other. Instilled in our spirituality. I'm one of those people, who others say things about that He/She just knew things without learning from writings. Those stories you hear. That feeling you know that is oh so familiar. That picture in your mind you can recall down to every small detail,all the while knowing you've never been there in this life. It is as common as we know our blood line is through our DNA. Some will believe what they will. Some will never receive clarity. Our brains are huge yet we use very little of it. How much have we lost because of little use? Passing down history through writings is extremely satisfying to gain knowledge. But, do we know everything in this world from writings? Some things you just know.
I am a Swedish speaking Finn / Finland Swede (=a Finn with Swedish as native language, one of Finlands official languages). We live on the west coast and in the south of Finland + Åland Islands of course, and there were a lot more of us further back in time than nowadays. I have also heard some say Vikings lived here, on the coast.
It would be very interesting if you have any content/or would make some content about us Swedish speaking Finns, and the history of us. Feels like we are something in between Finns and Swedes. Personally, I very strongly identify with being specifically a Swedish speaking Finn (not a "regular" Finn).
Don't know how this video came up in my feed. I'm into spirituality, but I'm superbad at history and don't really watch any viking content. But this was VERY interesting!
And this video made me a lot more curious about finding out more about my own ancestry. All I know about my ancestry is that we have been here for a long time and I come from a lineage of probably mostly Swedish speaking people (not Finnish speaking ones).
What is mindblowing to me, is how there is such a stark difference when it comes to preserving the pagan ways in Finland versus the Scandinavian countries. We know so much more about what magic and worship of the otherworld looked like here. But then again, Finland did not accept christianity for a long time, so i guess we had more time to preserve a lot of the information. Though, i wish we had more stories of the gods. We know how to worship deities and spirits, but there's not much to go as far as campfire stories go. Sure, there's some about Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen, but for gods like Ukko, there's not a ton.
@Finnic Patriot I mean, Ilmarinen literally is NOT Ukko. The two are their separate entities, with Ilmarinen likely being an older deity. Ukko as an supreme deity might be a christian influence. Also i never said that Väinämöinen wasn't a god. What i meant was, there's stories of the gods that later got turned into 'heroes' by the influence of Kalevala. But you rarely if ever hear actual stories of Ukko or Tapio etc. There's only information on how to honor Ukko for example, but you don't actually know much about what he has done.
@Finnic Patriot "Reason you don't hear stories of Ukko, is because it's a euphemism for Ilmarinen." There is absolutely no basis for this claim. None whatsoever. Ukko might be an euphenism, yes. But also it might not be, similarly to how Freya or Freyr are widely acccepted god names, despite being more like titles. So just because Ukko might not be "Ukko's" actual name, doesn't mean that it's a concealed identity of Ilmarinen. Also, i didn't mean that an idea of supreme deity is influenced by christianity, i meant that Ukko being the supreme deity might be. Because it doesn't make sense for him to be the head of the finnish pantheon.
If Ukko is euphenism, i personally think that it could be one for Virankannos. A deity that once must have held massive significance. I don't have a source at hand, and i'm honestly not going to dig it up for this occasion, but one of my books on finnish myths does contain a poem that refers to Virankannos as being "ylijumala", and while this certainly could well be a shared title, i do think it's significant. And in the great ox poem, one of the few poems that the gods are actively doing something, excluding kalevala poems, there are variation of the poem where the butcher is either Virankannos or Ukko, sometimes both.
this was just the best vid ever! more of these!
like you actually know the history instead of just ... the dogmas.
Wishes from magical Finland! I'm 100% finnish and my both grandmothers could do the magic things the time they lived. I think its going on and its coming from the mothermilk as well. And I love dark jokes by the way😅. Your channel is great. Please, make some video about varjags...they were pretty much finnish old vikings. Usually we though that there were no vikings in finland, but originally we were the first varjags before the vikings. It would be cool to learn more about them. You rock! Thanks for your channel. Kippis!❤🇫🇮
Thank you so much for this “cousin”. 😂 Am largely Finnish and have been sadly lacking in my connection to the biggest part of my ancestry. But this explains so much! 🖤🖤🖤
Thank you for this! As a Finnish pagan woman this made my heart sing. 🤩
City people dont make u pagan
Bro please do a video on how you manage your locks. That hair is glimmering like the golden rays of the sun.
Suomi mainittu torilla tavataan 🇫🇮 (Finnish saying when something Finnish is mentioned)
Christian flag we see
@@matimus100 Its a Nordic flag
Its called a Nordic Cross fyi!
Our Norwegian grandfather found a Finnish/Sami beauty irresistible. My grandmother, Erikka! 🤩
My Swedish grandfather was the same. Nords couldn't resist them lol. We Finns/Saami do have some really beautiful women, so can we blame them? lol
Eerika or Erikka?
Eerikka i never heard as Finnish but Erika is finnish name
@@tahjanjoki2940 You have not. Eerika is the Finnish version of Erika/Erica.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 yes ,Eerika is finnish name. But i say Errika is not finnish whit two K
Slavic chronicles described the Baltic Finns as tall, beautiful and light-eyed.
Finnish people are actually quite short. The people in the other nordic countries are much taller.
@@Meskarune Average male height: Iceland 182,1 cm, Denmark 181,9 cm, Finland 180,6 cm, Sweden 180,5 cm, Norway 180,5 cm. (Wikipedia)
My Finnish paternal haplogroup is the one that characterizes the descendants of "Vikings". And on my maternal side King Thorri Snærsson, of Kvenland is my 39th great grandfather and Eystein Ivarsson «the Noisy» Glumra is my 33rd great grandfather. So, Eirik «Blood-axe» Haraldsson, King in Norway, wis a distant cousin on my maternal line
I’m a 3rd generation Finnish-American and this a great and incredibly informative video. 🇫🇮/🇺🇸
perus jenkki
Thank you for the very interesting video. Few points though. On genetics, we also have to remember the mixing of Scandinavians. The recent genetics study of Scandinavia showed that a) during the Viking Age both Sweden and Norway were "danisized", genetically, for example Viking Age Gotlanders and Uplanders were in many respect closer to modern Finns than modern day Swedes. I think the reason for this is the ancient pan-Scandinavian hunter gatherer cultures' genes; and b) Scandinavians have been heavily mixed by central Europeans, especially Germans, in the Middle Ages. This I understood to have been strongest in Sweden Also, on the West Coast of Finland there lived people speaking proto-Germanic and Germanic languages but they changed their language to Finnic languages 1500-2500 years ago. Thus, there were strong genetic and cultural ties between these regions regardless of difference in languages. The most recent research considers that the language shift to have had bigger impact than the migration. However, also many Sami people shifted their language (and lifestyle) to Finnish, especially after Viking Age, so that admixture is more recent. In any case it is hard if not impossible to distinguish a sami from a Finn living in the same region. I guess it is the same in Northern Norway.
You may be interested in Mikko Moilanen (Ph.D. in Archaeology and a trained blacksmith by apprenticeship), although his publications and popularisations are mostly in Finnish. His doctoral thesis "Marks of Fire, Value and Faith" deals with "Finnish Late Iron Age swords with ferrous inlays". According to his research 400 Viking Age swords have been discovered in Finland so far, 31 of those are Ulfberth swords. By comparison, there are 500 Viking Age swords discovered in Sweden, 17 of which are Ulfberths. 44 Ulfberths in Norway and if I recall correctly 2500 Viking Age swords in total. Of course, this is just a tally of discoveries, but it also suggests that the previous impression of poverty stricken Finland may have to be re-evaluated.
"To give a number, there are a total of 677 catalogued complete swords, blades and blade fragments (Fig. 2). This figure includes all finds from mainland Finland, ceded Karelia and the Åland Islands. In addition, only double-edged blades were taken into consideration, which means that scramasaxes and single-edged swords, which are sometimes hard to distinguish from each other, are excluded. Of all these 677 collection numbers, 18 have been found in the territory of ceded Karelia, whereas 62 are from the Åland Islands. The number of finds from the Åland Islands includes those catalogued in the Åland Museum, although these were not examined or radiographed due to practical reasons. 44 The number of separate hilt parts without any intact blade is 197, seven of which are from ceded Karelia and five from the Åland Islands. Altogether the number of swords and sword parts is 874 from the studied area. www.utupub.fi/…/10024/119919/diss2016Moilanen.pdf…"
love this video as a fin, warms my heart!🇫🇮❤
Tack! Tack för att du lyfter fram oss fenno-skandinaver!
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Oooo i feel like ive been waiting for this one!!
I am married to a Finnish man, he is not very into history, so I really enjoyed this video, was really good. More will be nice, please.
Great video. I would love to hear more about Finnish history
Awesome video! Thank you😊Your arm ring is amazing!😃
Thorir Hundr, his mother was Sapmi. He knew how to use the shamans mushroom (fly agaric) to adjust his bodies' vibratory frequency. He wasn't just a good warrior chieftain he was also a shaman, of sorts. I dream of him, it used to be often when I was younger. My family is from north of Tromso, they were Sapmi/Norse mix, which is common.
Thank you for putting together this video
Vi er alle en stor familie 😊
Did you check in to the bock saga from finland ??? love your channel btw ! will keep and eye and ear ready for your up coming video´s hugs from Denmark
That was excellent , More please 🙂👍
There are still lots of tabus, Finland is old Kvenland that you can find from old icelandic sagas. Language of kvens is finnish.
You're somewhat mixing between talking about actual Finns of the time (Finns, Kvens, Tavastian and Karelian tribes) and the Sami, who were also called "Finns". The confusion stems from different Norse populations referring to the groups differently. Swedes referred to southwestern Finns from Finland as "Finns" specifically, due to their close proximity and contact, while Sami were called "Lapps". The other Finnish tribes also got their own names among the Swedish Norse. Norwegians referred to the Sami as "Finns" and the actual Finns they encountered as "Kvens". Danes were likely a mix of both terminologies.
The actual Finns largely lived similarly to the Norse and Balts in settled communities practicing mainly agriculture for their nutritional needs. And they had the same technology and would have resembled their neighbours across the sea for the most part. Even from appearance, the ancestors of Finns had been mixing with groups like the Balts before they migrated to Finland around 2000 years ago. That ancient Baltic mixing is still what contributes very much to Finnish genetics today. Discoveries from burials and graves of suspected local Finnish elite, warriors and perhaps chiefs/kings, also show long distance trade and wealth, with links to central Sweden, Latvia/Lithuania and even as far east as the western slopes of the Ural mountains. Evidence, such as fewer precious metals like silver and gold and less iron being used in things like shields becoming less common, also suggests that the Finnish tribes were more wealthy and developed during the Swedish Vendel period and early Viking Age (from 500s to early/mid 800s) than they were for the rest of the Viking Age and going into the "Crusader period" in the 1100s to early 1300s.
Tacitus' description therefor doesn't really fit the ancestors of Finns, even if it came centuries earlier. But Tacitus also never saw the Finnoi with his own eyes and likely got the description through tons of second, third, fourth and so on accounts and tons of translations between tribes, plus he was a "civilized" Roman. At the time of Tacitus, the proto-Finns mostly lived south of the Gulf of Finland in Estonia and the Sami lived in Finland and Scandinavia.
The ancestral Sami of the time more fit the description of wild forest dwellers largely sustaining themselves on hunting and gathering, although some Sami had started to become fishermen and more settled at the time, but most still lived a more nomadic life and would continue to do so for centuries. And sources describing venturing into the far north to meet with a "Finn" shaman or something of the sort would almost always mean the Sami rather than Finns.
You write good points.
On another note, most Swedes today are quite oblivious of how the actual Finns (not the Sami) have developed the Sweden of current geography. For instance, Finns were very proficient at kaskiviljely, opening forest, burning and agricultivating it, so Finns settled unpopulated forest areas north from Sweden's midline i.e. they made it habitable. They had Finnish speaking communities in those areas for centuries while the Sami were furthest up north.
@Finnic Patriot Most recent theories based on placenames and such suggest that the Finnish language didn't arrive to Finland until some time between 500-1000 CE. Many of the placenames in southwestern Finland predate this and have a clearly indo-european root, hich wouldn't make sense if they'd originally been named by Finnish speakers. However I also don't think Finns "adopted" the language, rather that there was a migration wave of Finnish-speakers who mixed in with the prior populace and their language stuck with the following generations.
@ö Vad i all världen talar du om? Total projektion. Ta ett gott andetag och gå i dig själv för en stund.
Hear, hear! This is what I suspected, too, when Norse Magic and Beliefs started to talk about a Norse woman sent to Northern Finland to learn some magic. It sounded like she was sent to amongst Samis, rather than Finns. Also, Finnish tribes during the late Viking period were heavily dependent on agriculture and as I have understood it, its level was pretty much as advanced as it was in Scandinavia. So being "hundreds of years" behind from Swedes and Norwegians does not sound quite right to me.
@@Anakunus The Finnish tribes of the early medieval period and traditional "Viking Age" period, and their ancestors for millennia before, were indeed very much accustomed to agriculture. The oldest words and concept relating to both farming and animal husbandry date to around 2000 BCE, roughly when proto-Indo-Iranian was spoken just to the south of the Volga region and the ancestor groups of Finns.
The only thing the Norse might have had an edge in compared to the Finnish tribes was societal organization, since they managed to form into their own kingdoms during the viking age or shortly after it in the case of Sweden. Although even in their "unified" states, local leaders of territories within the kingdom remained very much autonomous and had quite a bit of power. If Finland had been left alone instead of being slowly engulfed by both Sweden and Novgorod, I think it's very likely that the western tribes and eastern tribes would have developed stronger states similar to those around them. Especially when Christianity had trickled in gradually for some time and would have likely taken over like it did in Scandinavia, allowing for better unity in those realms. But this edge over the Finnish tribes when it came to proper states wasn't really a thing during the Viking Age itself, rather after it when Sweden started expanding east under the supposed pretext of crusading non-Christians and even then, it's believed Sweden only gained real control over Finland around a century after the first supposed "crusade" into Finland took place around the 1150s.
Unfortunately, we have basically nothing when it comes to documentation of the Finnish societal organization of the time, but there's much more written on the Estonians roughly around the same time and words for land divisions, communities etc. are shared between the two. And we know Estonia was divided into multiple different "counties" ("maakond" in Estonian, "maakunta" in Finnish) ruled by elders, who were likened to kings by chroniclers during the crusades into the Baltic. I believe the Estonian term for these elders is "vanem", which is a cognate to modern Finnish "vanhempi", meaning parent. Both are derived from the word for old, "vana/vanha". The Germanic derived "kuningas" would have also been in use. It's also likely that these leaders of the different territories were elected rather than being inherited and they held onto their power through being able to project that power. These leaders also likely had very little actual control over the lesser "chiefs" of smaller land divisions, unless they really forced their rule on them militarily or deepened ties through things like marriage. But as I said, none of this is concrete on Finland's part and most is speculation on clues such as words, placenames, archeology etc. and what we know about Estonia during the 12th and 13th centuries.
Greetings from Estonian/Latilvian American...love your videos!
Wouldnt really say finns were smaller because we have a number of 180cm+ iron age skeletons
@Heavy Metal Attack yeah it kinda sounds like some germanic supremacist shit lmao
As a Finnish woman, I'm just learning why I have so much magic, thank you for explaining. I don't think it's something I could teach a person to do, but I do help my children to understand the gift. We are something else.
Do you really believe in magic? 🤣
I am magic ( :@@veiron1
Nice! I get a "kick" out of your down to earth manner of speaking. You crack me up! I can imagine an interesting conversation with you over some beers. lol. I listen to your videos because I used to play a war game & went by the name "Thordis." Also, did my mt DNA & found hidden somewhere in the past there is Finnish markers. Oddly, my Dad also has Scandinavian (Germanic) DNA, but my Mom's is more specific. Even my birth first & middle names juggled around spells Thordis, only 2 letters left out. (Dad's Mom's name, she was a short lady.) My Mom seems to intuite things sometimes, occasionally to the point of "nosiness!" I know I often dream dreams about things that foretell something coming, a fact or a warning. A young woman said I was a witch. I just laughed. I'm no witch. I just enjoy being tuned to nature. More congenial to get along with usually. I am not sure I was born with Sisu, but I do have quick, precise reactions like a cat. I prefer to avoid confrontations, but if I must...my opponent knows they tangled with the wrong person. That surprise "kayo punch" gets them every time.
In love Finns. Have worked with them for years and they are marvellous people. The are the most fun when the are unintentionally humourous.
I remember leaving the church as soon as I could (age 18) because the whole "christianity" always felt foreign to me. I have instead had this weird unexplainable connection to the nature especially the forests (walking in a dark forest especially in the middle of winter ect you can just sense some primal power coming from within) and I think it's really intriguing knowing the heritage of the Finnish people. I love our ancestry and feel like we still have a lot of that nature respect and spirituality inside us eventhough it sometimes needs to be searched deeper from within.
I like to walk around in forest as well!
Feels like i'm home, completely safe
@@WombRaider_theoriginal Y it's like some primal feeling of having shelter inside the forest instead of being exposed on open grounds.
I also resigned from Christian church due to tax benefits. But Christianity has never felt foreign to me. despite being me being edgy teenager. Over the years I have grown to admire Christianity especially the Lutheran branch of it. Because it was Lutheran priest who wrote codified Finnish language also we reached in 17th century high literacy rating. It was also Lutheran priest who inspired Adam Smith greatly his name was Anders Chydenius.
Every religion creates a society of its image. We became part of the western culture when we adopted Christianity. Christianity civilized us more than pagan religion could ever do.
I am German (using my partner's account right now) and I recently found that my DNA is 20% Swedish and 10% Norwegian, which did come as a surprise, although it's also exciting!
As a Finn quite frankly I don't think we have anything to do with the vikings, but you got the whole thing still going with the necklace and the symbols on those little flags, so keep it up 👍