So England, Italy, Poland and Canada were more viking than Finland? Is that even posible?
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Nathaniel Powell
Finland doesn't have anything to do with Scandinavia other than the flag and economic system that they copied from us
Christopher Torres
There were finnish raiders in the baltic sea for a while, but they were not vikings; that's a norse thing.
Cameron Martinez
But finns rook the same as scandinavians, while the blonde/blue eyed people in south italy don't really rook nordic. I don't understand this
Blake Jackson
>implying vikings were just raiders
Henry Foster
they never really settled here, just a few overwinter camps
they went where there was wealth to pillage, finland was very poor back then
Joshua Evans
I never said that, really. "Vikings" is kind of a strange word though; it's become a catch-all term for any kind of seafaring scandinavian. The vikings were explorers, traders, colonists, conquerors, AND raiders.
Michael Johnson
Finns were living inland in the middle of an array of hill fortresses to ward off Vikings. When raiders were detected horns were blown from fortress to fortress and all the men of the land grouped and killed raiders.
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Daniel Hughes
Yeah, swedish settlement of the finnish coast was more of a high medieval thing, afaik. 1000 - 1300s, rather than 700 - 900s.
Kevin Barnes
Little known fact: Danes were actually the first to get the idea to colonize Finland and there was Danish presence there way before Swedes invaded.