01-22-2009, 07:01 PM
http://www.allempires.com/article/index....ge_Finland
Maybe this would be of interest to you, Richard, if I remember correctly you have Finnish origins and Viking connection
Finland: the Viking Ages By Kristian Ola (Wilpuri) Category: Medieval Europe: Political History Prologue
Viking Age Finland is a topic which is rarely discussed when talking about Finnish history. In schools, pupils learn next to nothing about pre-Medieval Finnish society. Also, historians have been rather reluctant to deal with the topic in-depth in recent years, and so very few works have emerged. It is almost as if it were taboo.
Before the Second World War, the nationalistic fervour in newly independent Finland encouraged many historians and researchers of the time to draw some rather hasty conclusions, which most certainly were biased in favour of making Finnish history somewhat more glorious than what it in actual fact may have been. After the Second World War, anything which would have compromised good relations with the USSR was forbidden by an "unspoken rule" of sorts, and the pre-war nationalism died down. Ever since, historians have avoided the subject, perhaps fearing to lose their credibility as a "nationalist historian" in the eyes of their colleagues and in the eyes of the public. Nevertheless, some excellent works, if rather careful and few in numbers, have emerged over time. They have not attracted much attention, however, and the subject has lived in a deep slumber for decades. The general public has shown little to no interest in the subject in recent years, and the pre-war notion of "nationalist history" still exists, which is not lessened by a wave of new nationalist "internet" historians, who are now able to publish some of the most outrageous theories. As someone tremendously interested in the period, I have become something of a self-educated "amateur-historian" on the subject, by obtaining as much literature on the topic as possible. I continue to go on with my research, and this essay is only meant to give an insight into what I have come to believe that Viking-age Finland must have looked like. I am most open to discuss the subject with anyone who has feedback, complains or corrections to make. I have attempted to remain as unbiased as humanly possible and to remain objective in my research. I am not on a crusade to prove a point, I simply want to shed light on a topic, which has been in the dark for most.
1.0 Western Finland
1.1 Introduction......
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http://www.allempires.com/article/index....ge_Finland
Maybe this would be of interest to you, Richard, if I remember correctly you have Finnish origins and Viking connection
Finland: the Viking Ages By Kristian Ola (Wilpuri) Category: Medieval Europe: Political History Prologue
Viking Age Finland is a topic which is rarely discussed when talking about Finnish history. In schools, pupils learn next to nothing about pre-Medieval Finnish society. Also, historians have been rather reluctant to deal with the topic in-depth in recent years, and so very few works have emerged. It is almost as if it were taboo.
Before the Second World War, the nationalistic fervour in newly independent Finland encouraged many historians and researchers of the time to draw some rather hasty conclusions, which most certainly were biased in favour of making Finnish history somewhat more glorious than what it in actual fact may have been. After the Second World War, anything which would have compromised good relations with the USSR was forbidden by an "unspoken rule" of sorts, and the pre-war nationalism died down. Ever since, historians have avoided the subject, perhaps fearing to lose their credibility as a "nationalist historian" in the eyes of their colleagues and in the eyes of the public. Nevertheless, some excellent works, if rather careful and few in numbers, have emerged over time. They have not attracted much attention, however, and the subject has lived in a deep slumber for decades. The general public has shown little to no interest in the subject in recent years, and the pre-war notion of "nationalist history" still exists, which is not lessened by a wave of new nationalist "internet" historians, who are now able to publish some of the most outrageous theories. As someone tremendously interested in the period, I have become something of a self-educated "amateur-historian" on the subject, by obtaining as much literature on the topic as possible. I continue to go on with my research, and this essay is only meant to give an insight into what I have come to believe that Viking-age Finland must have looked like. I am most open to discuss the subject with anyone who has feedback, complains or corrections to make. I have attempted to remain as unbiased as humanly possible and to remain objective in my research. I am not on a crusade to prove a point, I simply want to shed light on a topic, which has been in the dark for most.
1.0 Western Finland
1.1 Introduction......
.............................................
http://www.allempires.com/article/index....ge_Finland
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