So England, Italy, Poland and Canada were more viking than Finland? Is that even posible?
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Zachary Jackson
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.
Jaxon Kelly
1200-1400. Most Finland-Swedes are only half Swedish though.
Anthony Garcia
Did they just get kicked out by the swedes or what?
Ryder Evans
normans were just frogs with a vague connection to scandinavia
Landon Turner
Why bother settling in harsh Finland when you take fertile farmland in England?
Cooper Thompson
I guess there weren't many of them. Novgorod, Germans and Danes all were interested in taking Finland. Åland was settled by Swedes very early though, in the early Viking Era.
William Mitchell
Wow, Vikings were cool but savages
Henry Evans
but on the topic at hand, there were much better places to settle than finland, which was just a big swamp with a few piles of rocks which finns squatted on
Blake Mitchell
>Logi
Going into the territory of Ancient Finnish Kings founding Norway are we?
Henry Murphy
Frosti is a pretty badass name. I wonder if Skjalf was QT
Isaiah Torres
Lincoln Nguyen
logi and his kin were remnants of previous norse rulers of finland, kvenland and gothland
Kayden Flores
In the story she killed Agne and escaped to Finland leaving behind her sons whose line would be the kings of Svea for centuries
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Liam Miller
Wtf Agne is buried not long from where I live
Angel Garcia
Are you sure it's not the Agne of Svullo fame?
Adrian Howard
Vikags mostly just traded fur and tar with Finns. There was a small Finnish minority living in Birka.
Ethan Phillips
ur mum traded her fur for my tar
Owen Thomas
*sucks your dicks*
haha that makes you gay now
Alexander Flores
Poor Frosti :(
Chase Wilson
Citation for that map = zero
Brayden Murphy
they copied the flag from a russian yacht club
Parker Johnson
it would be quite a journey to take a real longboat and sail from norway to greece by following the rivers the vikings used
Daniel Martin
>Italy
Sicily was settled by Normans, not vikings, Sardinia was never settled or raided by Vikings the most you can say is that a local noble woman was married for sometime to a norman king (Enzo of Sardinia) but they divorced after some time
Ayden Foster
The greatest Vikings ever to be alive was FINNISH
Sebastian Hall
Vikings were pussies. Raped and pillaged rich monasteries then ran away once the soldiers showed up.
Evan Rogers
Suebs were not shitnavians neither were visigoths.
Joshua Garcia
Good thing they all converted to Christianity and became civilized after that.
Camden Rogers
its not referring to suebians or visigoths. the green colour prolly just denotes raids, not settlements
Samuel Martin
now I understand why terroni are so unproductive and subhumans
Ryder Anderson
Åland was inhabited by Finnic folk before Swedish traders settled there too.
It was literally the petrol station of Baltic Sea boat traffic.
Jace Brooks
>AD 800
>The main body of Scandinavia is still home to Kvenish and Finnish tribes
Jaxson Evans
>that map
>in any way factual
missing like half of the "kingdoms" here at the time and all of the kingdoms there are written incorrectly (the fuck is "throndhjem" supposed to be, some mix of danish, modern norwegian and old norse?)
Blake Howard
>vague connections
>who is rollo
Hudson Torres
a very distant ancestor of willy the born-out-of-marriage who had no connection to norsemen outside of said distant ancestor
Liam Hughes
Sardinia was the last territory of the Kingdom of the Vandals, a east germanic population, and Karalis its last capital. The gothic nobleman Godas was governor of the vandal province of Sardinia, and declared himself ruler of Sardinia later, seceding from the vandal kingdom.