What were Finns doing before Swedish colonization?

We BBQd the hearts of crusaders and ate them. The vägi was in the heart.

They became the victim of lebensraum. Nature is brutal that way.

WE WUZ PAGNZ N SHIT

They never were. It's a meme map

Classic Swedish revisionism

Yes we did.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_letter_no._292?wprov=sfla1

You truly are worse than Russia

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Ooga booga. The Swedes civilized them.

Many things including
>created ancient egypt
>created the roman empire
>founded russia

gondoling

Fucked our sisters, lived in the woods, the good stuff. Until wypipo came and ruined our lifestyle.

read ior bock's stories to find out

There is an account by vikings who went to investigate Finland. As they landed, crazy people came out the woods with spears. A thing to note was the many "witches" that cast spells (cursed). Vikings didn't really bother with Finland because people there lived pretty sparsely and humbly and even then reacted aggressively. It was a miserable place where you could only get hurt by some random witch.

befriended the rus and traded squirrel skins for weapons

worshipped BEARS as GODS

>cyrillic
Novgorodian influence?

Distilling the precursor to amphetamines
If the swedes hadn't stopped them we would have had meth heads as early as 1200 AD

this, the russians and swedes brought them civilization

Reminder that the Sami didn't even reach Scandinavia until around 500 AD and didn't make it south of Trondelag until the Modern period

This
SJWs are trying to force a false narrative that the sami are indigenous to scandinavia when we settled the area long before them.
They think that just because they are the minorities that must mean they were here first, but they don't know shit about our history
The blue places in pic related are the only places where you, to some degree, could argue they belong to the sami

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breddy spooky place

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gay sex

Mythology was strong.

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You need high iq to live over harsh northern winters.
Everything you say is false.

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shitting in buckets and howling at the moon

not high enough to make a written form of their own language sadly, or organize themselves into cities

we didn't have buckets that's why we hoard them now

We had few cities, wood doesnt age well.
About writings theres few birch bark letters found.
Doesnt also age well neither.
Mostly our knowledge passed via poet singing.

We only had 10 000 people in the year 1000 so no cities were built.

Wtf, Karelia alone had 20 000

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Not an excuse, the Finns on the south coast and around Lake Ladoga were in perfect positions to create trading towns and cities regardless of their population sizes but they failed to do so

We had trading around the baltic sea all the way to poland and skandis.
We also had cities.

Not much, what could they have possibly done?
It's not really a great place to sustain large population or civilization. They lived in tribes.

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german barbarians had roman goods as well, but they buried them as totems, even gold coinage

Maybe they did not want to.
More technology is not always good.

passing on your knowledge and culture to your descendants in a way that conserves the integrity of the information is pretty important for having anything that can become a civilization

we were busy eating treebark.

Don't enter the discussion if you don't know anything.
Finns had cities, notably Turku (tǔrgǔ, literally market town).
Only a few handful of civilizations ever invented their own writing systems.
Which is why Finnish mythology (collected via oral tradition) retained its integrity better than Germanic mythology which was written down by Christians?

dispensing a red herring to obfuscate your culture's lack of evolution?

Finnish mythology was written down by a Swedish priest in the 19th century

Norse mythology was written down by several Norse people over half a millennium earlier. It's safe to say that Norse mythology has retained far more of its integrity

This guy is more Swedish than Lönnrot though

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>dispensing a red herring
What the fuck are you talking about nigger.
>your culture's lack of evolution?
Civilization in Europe spread from the Mediterranean. Finland is furthest away from the Mediterranean. Did the Germanics invent their writing system? No. They use the Latin script. Did the Slavs invent their writing system? No, excluding the Bulgarians. They use the cyrillic script.
False. Kalevala =/= finnish mythology. Finnish mythology was collected by hundreds of academics.
>It's safe to say that Norse mythology has retained far more of its integrity
lolno. Objectively false.

>Finnish mythology was written down by a Swedish priest in the 19th century

After we tried to destroy it

the map is wrong. slavs mixed deep into fino ugrian area and other way whole time. for example Estonia was repopulated by slavs and later russians 3 times.

Did it have town rapists as well?

looks jewish to me..

Turku was founded by Slavs and built by Swedes

aping vikings, founding rus and shit

>Turku was founded by Slavs
False, please do more research.
>and built by Swedes
In the middle ages? Yes. Though most of that was burned away.

You are not very sophisticated. A "red herring" is a commonly understood idiom used to describe a distraction subject meant to draw focus away from the direction of the current dialog.

>False
Nope

How? We have fairly good evidence of Norse mythology as recorded by Snorri Sturlasson was "legit". VERY archaic poems for example in comparison to 1200s Icelandic which Snorri used outside of the Poetic Edda and even archeological evidence (several runestones in Sweden more or less telling us that the stories recorded were the real deal, like Thor fishing Jormungandr or Odin's eight-legged horse).

Turku is a Slavic word

Ran out of arguments nigger? Why resort to semantics and ad hominems?
Yes. There is some evidence that the Novgorodians traded in the region but that does not translate to them founding the city. They just traded there, as did the Swedes.

Åbo is an entirely Swedish endeavor, as are any of the finnish cities up the early 19th century, this even includes Helsinki, which was at that time a failed venture to transform southern Finland into a region that could locally compete with Hanseatic ports.

As if I was trying to hide that, not like I didn't explicitly state it at you disingenuous cunt.

Why do you compound the exposure of your ignorant understanding of the world around you? Is it just an Zig Forums thing?

This is mainly true. It was a Finnish market town turned into a proper city when the SW-Finland joined Sweden.