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Post by Tomas on Mar 7, 2024 11:33:33 GMT
Archival conference ahead in Stockholm this week Friday-Sunday. This group of early settlers were coming to Sweden in great numbers in the 16th 17th 18th 19th centuries, notably not immigrants since Finland then were part of the Kingdom of Sweden, "the eastern half of the realm". Programme during this weekend which I will attend in work is filled to the brim with interesting talks and visits. It will be held mostly in Historical Museum, Nordic Museum and the outdoor rural museum Skansen. Evening programme will include traditional food, readings from Kalevala, and playing on the Kantele! Really looking forward to this invitation and do expect a good time in learning. Posting on it here is to indicate the inherent conservative traits among Finnish and Sweden Finns people. Yesterday I asked one of my colleagues at the nationwide Swedish Finns Archives, partly seated in the same building as our other local and regional archives here, in connection to the public library and town museum, about Lenten practises today within the "community". She thought they still have Lenten time in mind! That does probably sound a little suprising to some but might well be the case, since many or most of them are rather traditionalist Christian Protestants (if that is not too close to an oxymoron) especially in comparison with an average secular Protestant Swede. Be that as it may, both evening dinners in this conference undoubtedly is serving Fish dishes and no meat.
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Post by Séamus on Mar 27, 2024 12:01:04 GMT
Archival conference ahead in Stockholm this week Friday-Sunday. This group of early settlers were coming to Sweden in great numbers in the 16th 17th 18th 19th centuries, notably not immigrants since Finland then were part of the Kingdom of Sweden, "the eastern half of the realm". Programme during this weekend which I will attend in work is filled to the brim with interesting talks and visits. It will be held mostly in Historical Museum, Nordic Museum and the outdoor rural museum Skansen. Evening programme will include traditional food, readings from Kalevala, and playing on the Kantele! Really looking forward to this invitation and do expect a good time in learning. Posting on it here is to indicate the inherent conservative traits among Finnish and Sweden Finns people. Yesterday I asked one of my colleagues at the nationwide Swedish Finns Archives, partly seated in the same building as our other local and regional archives here, in connection to the public library and town museum, about Lenten practises today within the "community". She thought they still have Lenten time in mind! That does probably sound a little suprising to some but might well be the case, since many or most of them are rather traditionalist Christian Protestants (if that is not too close to an oxymoron) especially in comparison with an average secular Protestant Swede. Be that as it may, both evening dinners in this conference undoubtedly is serving Fish dishes and no meat. I was impressed when first hearing about the unbeatable Finnish skiing combatants of the 1939 war,the first time I'd heard of ski-fighting at all. That it gave Finland such an upper hand over USSR, which must have had some,at least,soldiery capable of fighting and hiding on skis and in snowy forests also, seems extraordinary. But then I hadn't heard of combat dolphins and belugas either until Russia annexed Crimea a few years back. 🇫🇮 |
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Post by Tomas on Mar 27, 2024 14:09:58 GMT
Archival conference ahead in Stockholm this week Friday-Sunday. This group of early settlers were coming to Sweden in great numbers in the 16th 17th 18th 19th centuries, notably not immigrants since Finland then were part of the Kingdom of Sweden, "the eastern half of the realm". Programme during this weekend which I will attend in work is filled to the brim with interesting talks and visits. It will be held mostly in Historical Museum, Nordic Museum and the outdoor rural museum Skansen. Evening programme will include traditional food, readings from Kalevala, and playing on the Kantele! Really looking forward to this invitation and do expect a good time in learning. Posting on it here is to indicate the inherent conservative traits among Finnish and Sweden Finns people. Yesterday I asked one of my colleagues at the nationwide Swedish Finns Archives, partly seated in the same building as our other local and regional archives here, in connection to the public library and town museum, about Lenten practises today within the "community". She thought they still have Lenten time in mind! That does probably sound a little suprising to some but might well be the case, since many or most of them are rather traditionalist Christian Protestants (if that is not too close to an oxymoron) especially in comparison with an average secular Protestant Swede. Be that as it may, both evening dinners in this conference undoubtedly is serving Fish dishes and no meat. I was impressed when first hearing about the unbeatable Finnish skiing combatants of the 1939 war,the first time I'd heard of ski-fighting at all. That it gave Finland such an upper hand over USSR, which must have had some,at least,soldiery capable of fighting and hiding on skis and in snowy forests also, seems extraordinary. But then I hadn't heard of combat dolphins and belugas either until Russia annexed Crimea a few years back. 🇫🇮 The war veterans are still living in wounded hearts. Annual memorial day etc are held among the community. Heroic fighters, and like Ireland they had civil war also close to the war of independence two decades before. It would be some ground, maybe far fetched but some, to do parallell cross section studies comparing Finland fighters with Irish. That is a pet idea been nourished at least, but probably impossible in rational academe. |
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Post by cato on Mar 27, 2024 18:29:34 GMT
If memory serves me right Joe Lee in his Ireland 1912-1985 discusses comparisons between Ireland and other small European nations that achieved independence after 1918. The Finnish Civil war was much more brutal than its Irish counterpart but seems to have much less impact on Finnish politics and the national psyche than its Irish equivalent. |
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