#skogsfinnar

[freyjaofthenorth]

found a book about forest finn culture and history at the library and as i never knew which things i grew up with came from which culture in my family history it’s always fun to look for things

and in the section on folk beliefs and how forest finn folk beliefs differ from swedish ones i learned that one of the big ones i grew up with, which if i remember correctly in religious studies terms is called total animism (”even rocks think in their own way” ~my mother), is apparently of forest finn descent, and originating in the old east-finnish religion

you learn something new every day

[ohagios]

Kontti, a backpack used by Forest Finns who were Finnish migrants from Central/Southern Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th centuries before they largely assimilated into Swedish and Norwegian cultures.

[freyjaofthenorth]

i wonder if literally anyone has done any research on forest finn remains from the race biology days

i feel i can't be the only one who wants those remains to be repatriated too

[atsvensson]

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[freyjaofthenorth]

anyway the other reason i was in Ubmeje was because of a minority culture festival at the open-air museum, which was fun! and also had some grilled char (the fish) with goat cheese on gáhkkuo which was yes

it’s the entire weekend but i could only afford going one day so i picked today because of the demo, and luckily it had also one of the program points i was most interested in, which was a talk on forest finn history; a subject relevant to me as i also have forest finn heritage

it was very interesting, and also nice to feel somewhat more as a part of a wider sweden-finnish community, which i have always felt somewhat connected to (due to the finnish roots) but also a bit distant from (as we lost the language, with the last forest finn to be a native finnish-speaker dying in 1969)

once again, really should look more at forest finn cultural revitalisation

[metafin]

METSÄSUOMALAISET / SKOGSFINNAR / FOREST FINNS

FINNISH TYPE FROM VÄRMLAND.

The Swedish nation in word and picture (1921) Herman Bernhard Lundborg & John Axel Mauritz Runnström.

[fornsed-blog]

Forest Finns

Forest Finns (Norwegian: Skogfinner, Swedish: Skogsfinnar, Finnish: Metsäsuomalaiset) are people of Finnish descent in the forest areas of Eastern Norway and Central Sweden. The Forest Finns emigrated from Savonia in Eastern Finland during the late 16th and early to mid 17th centuries, and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture.

Painting by Eero Järnefelt showing forest burning. The use of the term "Forest Finns" is first reported in sanctions issued by the Dano-Norwegian king in 1648, although they (at least locally in Norway) more commonly were known asSavolaksfinner (Savonian Finns), Rugfinner (Rye Finns) from their major crop, or notably Svedjefinner (Slash-and-burn Finns). The people itself often use the term Finnskoginger(People from the forest of Finns).

A part of the province where i live (Småland/Smolandia) is called "Finnveden".