The Finnic man first stepped foot into southern Finland at the beginning of the Common Era. However, he was immediately subjugated by the Germanic man, who ruled over him for approximately 800 years. This pushes back the date of the beginning of Scandinavian rule from the 13th Century AD to the 1st. >Consequently, there may after all have been chieftains called kuningas ʻkingʼ in southwestern Finland during the Roman Iron Age (ca. 1–400 CE), the Migration Period (ca 400–600 CE) and the Merovingian Period (ca. 600–800 CE), as some Finnish nationalistic circles claim in their alternative, “non-Swedish-minded” interpretation of Finlandʼs history based on for example medieval Icelandic sagas (see e.g. The Association of Finnish Culture and Identity), but – slightly embarrassingly for such Finnish nationalists – these “Kings of Finland and Kvenland” would not have been ethnic Finns by birth, but Scandinavians (cf. Kallio 2000: 96–97; Salo 2008: 156–163).
With this information in mind, why aren’t Finns more open to the idea of Swedish rule?
And if we take into account earlier Finnic history, the date of the beginning of Scandinavian rule gets pushed back even further. >Finnic has around 500 “early Germanic” loanwords. As standard Finnish has around 6000 word stems (Häkkinen 2004: 6), it is a considerable percentage of the Finnic vocabulary. Moreover, the Germanic loanwords also introduced several new phonotactic features into Proto-Finnic, such as new syllable structures. >The work summarized so far culminated in the publication of the Lexikon der älteren germanischen Lehnwörter in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen (henceforth LägLoS 1991, 1996, 2012) ... In brief, LägLoS critically discusses all the 1401 Finnic words that have been considered to be borrowings from any proto-stage between Early Proto-Germanic and Proto-Norse According to LägLoS, therefore, the Finnic languages have at least 518, and at most 1077, early Germanic loanwords. >Germanic also influenced Finnic phonological development owing to the existence of a Germanic-speaking superstratum in regions populated by Finnic groups, a view that has become widely accepted in Finno-Ugric historical linguistics (Posti 1953; Koivulehto 2002: 590-1; but see also Kallio 2000). So around 9%-18% of the “Finnic” (Finno-Germanic) vocabulary is actually of Early Germanic origin. These words (such as “King”, “Prince”, “Power”, and “Honour”) form a superstrate which emerged as a result of social stratification, which means that the Germanic man has in fact been ruling over Finnics since the Bronze Age when Scandinavian settlers (axe-wielding warrior-traders) began to colonise the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea.
Hudson Cox
Fact: Finland is cute!
Josiah Lopez
Finland was literally our bitch. The Swedish Empire was based and redpilled.
