My heritage is strongly shamanic. I have green eyes and small elf hands (not the elf from J. R. R. Tolkien, but like smallfolk and gnomes. I don't claim to be a shaman or witch myself, but I did have a strong sense of stuff happening beforehand. When I was young, I constantly saw things in my dreams that become true. Somewhere in my twenties, I lost most of it. Perhaps it was caused by me closing my mind to the outside world. Too much toxicity perhaps and less time communing with nature.
@@Mayhem-pv9cc I had similar experiences when I was young even saw people coming to my room, angels or gods I dont know, I am really attentive and I notice even small things and make assumptions of it which usually is right.. maybe there is somekind of shaman in Finnish people.. btw Im too green eyed and im very blond/redhead
Later Finns were infamous in America. Being very red, there was a saying telling that if you put two Finns in the same workplace, they will start an union. And being very fond of alcohol, bars did have signs saying "No Indians, no Finns". Being fond of forests and booze, and being downtrodden, Finns went along well with indigenous Americans, you should look up Findians.
My paternal grandfather, who immigrated to the US in the 1880's, ended up changing his last name to a shorter, more "anglicized" version in order to not "burden" his children with an obviously Finnish name.
It is not very surprising, since indigenous Indians and Finnish people share a lot of commonality, and are part of the same people originally. That being said, the split of Native Americans and Finnish people happened over 25000 years ago near the area of current Mongolia. Part of that group continued to the East over the land-bridge to North America, some stayed in that area, some moved South-East towarss Korea and Japan, while one group started moving towards the West following the receding glaciers. One of the latter groups landed in Finland So while they are part of the same mass-migration group originally, that was such a long time ago, that if Finnish people hadn't been so culturally isolated for most of that time, the connection would be almost zero.
In Britain, the Vikings took the whole country without breaking a sweat. In France, the Vikings raided Paris with impunity and seized Normandy without breaking a sweat. In Russia they created whole Kingdoms and left behind tons of ship burials. In Finland they got a couple of trading posts, which evidently operated with the approval of the Finns. None of their trademark ship burials have been found. It seems the Vikings were on their best behaviour in Finland. Plenty of Viking weapons have been found in Finland, but they've almost exclusively been in graves that were distinctly Finnish. Why would the Vikings bother to behave themselves in Finland? Perhaps because Finnish graves of the time tended to be full of weapons, which means the Finns must have been armed to the teeth. If you have piles of weapons, you can afford to put some of them in a grave. About 30% of all the Viking Age swords ever found, have been found in Finland, which at the time had nowhere near 30% of the population of the North, which means the sword was a very popular weapon in Finland and the Finns probably knew how to use it. Viking Age Finns were also extremely vindictive, so raiding them would automatically result in a retaliatory raid, in which no quarter would be given. Raiding France was just so much easier and the loot was much better.
In Turku there's this place called Ristimäki and an old school with the same name, I remember in the early 80's how were forbidden to dig anywhere in the yard because of Viking burial grounds with a ship that was found there, they still dig over there to this day, there's also stone age burial grounds nearby.
We still have weather-sorcerers in Finland, they appear on tv usually after the news and informs us of what type of weather they have been summoning for the upcoming days, it is not that rare that they have mixed the spells up and get it wrong but it is still creepy and scary.
It is a fact that the viking king Olaf II of Norway who later adopted Christianity did raid Finland very likely in the year 1008 and lost a battle there. I don't think the vikings were afraid of anything, but that incident may have affected how they saw the Finns. In Finland on the other hand the coastal areas were largely unpopulated, and one reason is said to be that the coast was not considered safe because of the vikings. However there was trade, as there are a lot viking era swords found in Finland. The coastal areas were populated by Swedes during the 1200's, giving Finland a Swedish speaking minority that still exists. The old pictures in the video are from a book by Olaus Magnus published in 1555. Olaus had published a very famous map Carta marina in 1539. It is a wonderful map of the Nordic countries, showing the Baltic Sea and the present day Nordic countries Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden and Norway belonging together and forming a specific entity despite the cultural and language differences. This is quite interesting, also as in the 2024 World happiness report these countries are #1, 2, 3, 4 and 7.
As far as I know, the coast was inhabited throughout the Viking Age, but the islands were not. Islands of course could be easily attacked from any direction, by Vikings as well as other Finns, so there was no point building anything on them.
Maybe all Finnish people are controlling the weather and it's ruled by majority (most people like and don't mind winter so winter is long) and divided appropriately along the year (like if people wish for warm weather then it moves closer to summer time when it's supposed to be warm etc.).
Yeah he has dug out real horror stories about what Finns did to the rapist and looters. Also about a "blond beautiful Finnish girl" that some "smart" Viking king took as his wife by force, well the girl approved this in fear of her relatives faith (not sure about that? Perhaps that king had already murdered them?) While onboard she slit Viking kings throat... Womans fury has no match on earth🥶
@@AmericansLearn That's quite likely the story of Swedish king Agne and Skjalf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agne who avenged his father Frosti by hanging the Agne on his own torc which is kind of neck ring. Frosti was the grandson of primordial giant Fornjotr the legendary king of Finland and Kvenland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t#Ancestor_of_the_House_of_Yngling
Vikings and Finns had a difficult beginning but they learned to get along and become friends. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--NjCKO1Yx9o.html Movie 13th Warrior (starring Antonio Banderas) is about Finnic bear cult known as berserkers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-knpj6iwYF1c.html Vikings eventually liked Finnic culture and religion ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ohxWPHGcI7w.html Tolkien's Middle Earth is pretty Finnic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1XJEmdbgd7A.html Eventually Finns become Nordic like former Vikings ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--oao5Yjb1SI.html
Battle at Herdaler (vikings vs the Finns) / The Saga of Olaf Haraldson (the Norse viking king): "The Finlanders conjured up in the night, by their witchcraft, a dreadful storm and bad weather on the sea...", "The third fight was at Herdaler, where The men of Finland met in war, The hero of the royal race, With ringing sword-blades face to face." (this happened in the "Uusimaa" which is a southern region of Finland the Viking king Haraldson barely survived and the Finnish witchcraft got even more famous in the viking tales.
Olaf and his men get ambushed by some angry Finns and they make it back to their boats and escape. They row out off range of arrows when Olaf turns to his men: "So... it was the Finnish-Weather Wizards that drove us away right? RIGHT!"
The Duolingo language app references this idea in it's early lessons. Such as giving you the sentence "Norjalainen on viikinki, ja suomalainen on velho." (the Norwegain is a viking, and the Finn is a wizard.")
Well, vikings never conquered Finland. Although Finland had a lot of for example wood they needed for their ships etc. They passed Finland and in the east they went to Novgorod instead.
I remember reading somewhere that in some lores there's somekind of story about how someone (some vikings to my memory) was approaching from the sea and they saw fires emerging on the coast. And when they came to the shore, there was noone to be seen. When they carried on inland, which was heavily forested back then, they were ambushed by Finns, who were using a sort of guerrilla tacticts already back then. What stories have truth in them and how much, we can only guess. But it is known that a representative of Finns was attending Attila the Hun's birthday (or something, some sort of festivities) as an *invited guest*. And when you consider who that guy was and even he respected the "Finns" (wasn't afraid of course, but didn't bother and rather had friendly relations), there is something into those stories. Also, the Mongols didn't bother to come here. There wasn't actually any treasures to steal here (just like with Attila), but Genghis doesn't sound like someone who thought just about the wealth part.
Hei sister, " the Finns knew how to "wizard the wind". It means that they knew how to sail upwind and against the wind very well and with fast turns. It is more clearly described in Kalevipoeg than in Kalevala that the Finns were the best seafarers. "The Livonians recognized today as an indigenous people, (in Lithuanian līvlizt, Latvian līvi, lībieši) are a Finnish people from the Baltic Sea who historically lived in the area of present-day Latvia. They once made up a significant part of the Baltic population, but nowadays they are just a small fragment of the nation. Livonian (līvõ kēļ) i.e. a Baltic Finnish language, the closest native language of Livs is Estonian. The language was spoken by the Livonians in Latvia, Curonian Spit, Liivinranta, They called themselves korsi, or korret.. (stem of a grass or sedge/ floating straw), the Kurki (crane) is their sacred god , later twisted into the Devil. The god of the Prussians was also Kurk, Wuisk, Uisko is the proper name of piratico (ship). Uisko can be found in Sweden's oldest literary work, the Eerik,s chronicle written at the beginning of the 14th century, where it is borrowed from the Finnish language. Uisko is mentioned as the boats of the Karelians. fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uisko Also, Henrik Lättiäinen Liiv's chronicle reads; "The light ships used their 'witchcraft' to pass and sidestep the large German ships as they pleased. " And this was written by Lättiäinen at the end of the 13th century after the Curonian ravages; “ Missionaries attacked Riga. Nine large galleys (Gothic type of ship), the south wind pressed them to the west coast. The people of Saaremaa attacked regardless of the wind, "by force of will, down and up". This is how the Gothic people wrote, but these are not included in the history ." Fortunately, there is some in stock.. The ships on the Baltic Sea coast were therefore called Piratico, Finno-Ugrian ships. Henrik Lättiläinen was the only one to write about it in the 13th century. Indeed, when you start to dig for these, you suddenly find that in Northern Norway, where the best Viking ships were made, the makers were always Finns.."
I am not sure that Viking had much to do with the Lapps =Sami People. Their route towards east was mainly a sea way. The Antonio Banderas movie "13th warrior" has a base in the rune story about vikings passing the south coast of Finland. The dark folks are the south coast inhabitants. On the other hand we know today that the vikings rerouted their eastbound Journeys though much ruffer way inland routing along the rivers and lakes, for they wanted to avoid the sea route and the most broken coast of Uusimaa area. That would have been more straight route, but they chose Island instead - for sure not an easy way carrying boats over the isthmus and prolonging the journey.
I also think that Finland might have been a poorer country resource wise than England or France. So might be that more resources were aimed at juicier targets than Finland.
If there was some truth behind of these tales I reckon it could be that this viking chieftain and his crew were embarrased by their defeat. So the survivors told excuses back home "it was the weather, oh yeah and there was This Sorcerer...wait there was many of them! We can't beat supernatural forces like that, none can".
As much as i'd like to put some national-romantic twist there i tend to believe vikings didn't have any reason to pillage and raid Finland. There was no riches to speak of so it's more convenient to put up some trading posts instead
Finland is only northern country where still lives indigenous people (Saamelaiset). Scandinavic people thought they are witches. Vikings tried to invade Finland just like all Scandinavian countries , but they went there only to die. When Soviet Union tried to invade Finland they said there was spirits in forests who did not let them success.
The Sami ppl are a minority in Finland. Norway has got the most of them. Sweden is the second , Finland the third and Russia has the least number of the Sami ppl. Sami ppl are different ppl and they have a completely different culture.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters Notably, that's the current situation. Sami and Finnish are both Finno-Ugric languages and both bloodlines come from the Urals. However, there is a different in when and where the migration occurred. The Sami arrived after initial settlement of the region during the Bronze Age through Carelia to Southern Finland to Northern Scandinavia around 1600-1500 BCE. The Finns arrived through the Volga, Oka Dnepr and Väinäjoki rivers to the Baltics and then Southern Finland later 1250-1000 BCE and 800 BCE. Finns are the closest related to the Sami, for better and for worse. Since both share a lot of history in the region, the bloodlines have mixed - more so in the North but still traceably in the South. The question of familial lineage has been a touchy subject as saying that the "Sami are Finnish" or Scandic or Russian... was very insulting still in the 90s and often said. Though the idea of a pure Sami lineage is questionable, most agree that the language, culture and actively engaging with the Sami tradition is where the two differ. I have no idea how this conversation has gone in Norway and Sweden, but the Sami are an interesting quirk in human history.
@@butterflies655 Because of the Scandinavia climate in Norway and Sweden is very different from Finland's. You should learn more about geography in Nordic countries.
I think the Vikings that tried to invade England were in fact from Denmark. It is said that the Danes were the true Vikings. Not from Norway or Sweden.
@@edonveil9887 The typical Danish prononciations comes much later on. By the time Danes and Jutes migrated to England, together with Saxons and Angles they spoke a North Germanic language more similar to Old Norse and when Dane vikings raided Britain they sounded almost identical to modern day Icelandic. Up until the middle age they spoke Old Swedish but after the protestant reformations they took a lot of inspiration from German. The newest addition and the most prominent changes happens as French revolution making French the most hip place in Europe and they swap out the rolling R sounds for hard R's. Since the late 1800's danish have taken way more inspiration from modern English language then Norway and Sweden. Danish is the North Germanic language that today sounds the least like it's Norse origin. The reason why Danish sounds more English is because it's inspired more by English then the others.
During the time of the viking raids on England, Scotland and Ireland Danes was rather interchangeable with Gautar and Norweigians. About one third of the populated area in Sweden at that time was inhabited by Danes living right next to the Gautar. Norweigians, Gautar and Danes all inhabited the regions of Kattegat and Skagerack at the time which was the base for the raids going west and south. But Svear did also join occasionally.
With lucky socks on life is smooth sailing. Originally Finns referred to Sámi people, who lived north from Norse and have animistic and shamanistic believes. Later on to all Finnic tribes, as in the rest of the lot. Up north there's natural phenomenons, like polar night and northern lights, which are regarded as magical even today. Some relating videos: "Where do the Scandinavians come from?", "JÄTINKIRKKO - Mitä nämä on ja miksi ne rakennettiin?", "The ski-going people - Early history", "The Seal Hunters - the linguistic traces of ancient Scandinavia", "Before Indo-European (The Indo-Uralic Hypothesis) Part ONE", "Finnish & Hungarian's long lost cousin - The Nganasan Language", "The Psychology of The Shaman (Inner Journey)". "The Shaman (Šamaan) - English version", "Lapin Noidat - Lapland Witches - Finnish Mythology", "The Hammer of Ukko - Trailer #1", "Shaman Duel", "Väinämöinen - The Eternal Sage - Finnish Mythology", "Ancient TRIBES of Finland", "Turun monet linnat // The Many Castles of Turku", "Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot-The epic poem of Finland (12 things you should know)", "Kaleva - Finnish Primordial King and Ancestor", "Bjarmien Maa: Historia Suomi", "From Kalevala to Middle-Earth: Tolkien's love for Finland's MYTHS!", "Collections of the National Museum of Finland: Sword from Pappilanmäki, Eura", "Aldeigjuborg: The Lost Viking City near Europe's Largest Lake", "The Finnish Vikings: Full History", "Suomen kronikka", "Suomen muinaiskuninkaat", "Finnish Text in the Medieval Saxon Sword", "The Swedish Crusades to Finland | Fact or Fantasy?", "Kirkko ja kruunu ryöväsivät", "What caused the Finnmark Witch Trials?", "Irish in Finland Witch execution trials in Finland", "Finnish Sorcery Traditions", "Karelian Magic - 1920", "Karl Skartveit Fremmed blod", "Vaietut Juuret - Silenced Roots" and "How To Find Out If You Have Native Blood In Your Family (updated)". Also: "How the Finns became White (in America)", "Findians | FINNISH AMERICAN INDIANS", "The Suprising History of Finndians" and "Sami Women at Standing Rock".
I think you are wrong, at the viking ages people told stories orally because they couldnt read and pass over historical data to the next generations, the stories are told from their perspective realistic and true to the source.
You should look up north-american Findians.aöao known as the china-swedes. We had way more similarities with the native americans than any other culture had.
unlikely to be the saami people or laplanders since their forte never was seafaring. they dont have ports anyone at the time would have visisted ..... that pretty much rules that out. there are known, documented remnants of hillforts alongside finnish coasts - and those areas is where i would put my bets on, especially in this tale where vikings where chased back to their ships - this would not have been done by a couple of reindeer nomads - who probably never would becom target to a raid - there is nothing to raid from them but reindeers. while the finns did have rudimentary and more importantly static/stationary settlemens than one could seek out and plunder, the saami did not have that sort of thing - they lived in tipis. also, people always forget in ancient times there was no "sweden" or "finland" ... or "norway" - it was one big nordic landmass with no political borders - except the border of your village or a group of villages if you were a jarl or chieftain. So, "the finns" did not exist - and "the vikings" did not exist either as political clear distinguishable entities. tribes robbed each other, they fucked each other, they raided together, they traded together within modern day finland and the scandinavian countries - and i am sure some of those "tribes" were what we today call vikings. (bad icehockey players living near a vik and speaking a germanic tongue brewing fantastic mead and lousy beer:-) So yeah, some vikings have been sent home with a bloody noses, and in other cases they were invited to a trade show ... and when they did their journey further east all tghe way down to kyev and beond, it can be assumed they have some native experts from forrest and moory lands of finland in the travel group. So, its not black and white... tribal europe... with changing alliances, also in the north. And plenty viking artefacts have been found deep inside finland - just showing, finnish vikings existed ... did they speak finnish or norse or saame or what? you tell me :)
Genetic studies can separate the Scandinavians into two large groups, Germanic and Finn-Ugric, the indigenous Germanic are characterized by having paternal Haplogroups I1 in 50% and almost 50% R1b, Finnish are characterized by being 60% N1a1 and approximately 30% of I1, Northern Swedes have DNA more similar to Finns. So if we can see that there are two clearly differentiated ethnicities in Scandinavia from west to east
Genetic models indicate that the Finns tend to group more with other Eastern Europeans, having a greater genetic affinity towards the Baltic and the Finn-Ugric of Northern Russia, the Vikings have greater genetic affinity towards other populations of North-Western Europe such as the Germans, and the British Isles.
Norway is home to most sami ppl in the world. The second is Sweden, the third is Finland and the fourth is Russia. Sami ppl are a race of their own and they have a completely different culture.
This is a misunderstanding. Olaf was a Christian king and Christians didn't really believe in the magic of Norse and Finns. He wasn't in Finland (or Estonia) as a Norse viking but rather as a Christian king justifying his expansionism trough the usual divine right to "mission" by the sword. That said, most of his crew where most likely not a devout Christian at that point and the Norse looked at the lands inhabited by the Finns as the edge of Mannheim and close to the realm of the Jotunheim. It's important to understand that the Norse people were very keen on not disrupting the competitive balance between the Aesir and the Jotunn as both are essential for the existence of life, so battling the Finns so close to the edge of Jotunheim could potentially spell disaster for the Norse world by weakening the sorcerers of the Finns that manages to keep most of the Jotunns out from invading Mannheim outside of the Midgard fortification. There's a reason why the Norse population sought up Finns and Sami for reciving protective spells long after it was forbidden by law in all of Scandinavia. Their magic was seen as the most powerful in the Norse worldview by being able to keep the Jotunns out from invading Mannheim without the need of having to amass large armies of soldiers or a large fortress. So did the Norse fear the Finns, no they respected them. It wasn't really until the Norse kings applied an adaptation of Christian philosophies they got the idea of trying to make it part of their own land. The Norse viewed it as part of their world but not as theirs. There was indeed trading and culture exchange going on and just like within the people of the tribes of the Finns and Norse people itself there was disputes between the Norse and Finnsh tribes that lead to violent conflicts.
@@duhni4551 Your question is terrible. I never said "church" and I never said said they don't believe in magic. I said Christians don't believe in the magic of the Norse and Finns. Christianity proclaims the belief in God's created heaven, where Satan used to exist as one of gods angel that have since fallen to earth and now tricks people to ask favors of him to accomplish things in life. This is what's regarded as witchcraft. Christians doesn't accept either Norse mythology or Sejd (magic) as real just as they don't accept the scientific theory of the big bang as the real creation of physical space and time.
@@Hrotiberhtaz Does it get more christian than church it self? It wasn't just the church, it was people too. Also church of the time deemed "heathens" to be devils advicates and the sentense was death. Anything out of church's sphere was satans work, they lived quite simple times in that sense. Not to mention that people has always been superstitious, even more so further we go back in history, being christian has newer changed that.
This is untrue, sure some maybe, but not Swedes and Goths, we colonised parts of southern Finland (also there was no Finland at this time, just Finns, Sami and more) and also Swedes, Goths lived beside Finns in Novgorod. I doubt they would do that if they was scared of them. But Norwegians was maybe more scared because they lost a battle. Also as he says in the video, it was more likely the people in Lappland (Sweden and Finland) with Sami people the vikings was suspicious of.
@@cinderellaandstepsisters I live there, it's more in Norway and Sweden but they had much more land area in Finland during Viking age and there are no records about how many they really was by that time
More land, but less Sami ppl. Sami ppl are a different race from the Fins. Sami ppl themselves do not even want any other ppl to wear their national costumes. Sami ppl are very different from finns.
@@roxpace Google it. Finland has not many of them. Sami ppl are not finns. They are a different race with a completely different culture. They don't even want any other ppl, but just sami ppl to wear their national costume.
They did not fear Finland 🇫🇮 because id not exist They fear the Forrest… ocean not as dangeruos.. at the coast They spoke Norse ( old Swedish) the ” Finns” lived inland
Finland did not exist... Come on. Finnish people did. They spoke Finnish and lived in that land, what we all know Finland these days. They were not swedes, even tho the land were under swedish rule later. They were not Russians either. So Finland did exist even tho it was not called Finland back then.
Land was not "just forest". Or are we children for trees? 😅 Do you know, that our DNA is not the same with swedes. It is not the same with Russians. So Finn's did live back then in land called Finland these days. And people's that land was finns. Like they are now as well.
Wasn't to much to raid around here at that time. Finns were very poor and lived a very simple life. Here on the coast the vikings moved around of course but I don't think there was to much going on in the big forests. Probably not to welcoming either. Probably not worth the fuss.
