What would F[spoiler]inland[/spoiler] be called if it wasn't called F[spoiler]inland[/spoiler]?
>>52232230
It isn't called Finland. It's Suomi, you fucking leaf poster.
>>52232298
This. Thank you based Bolivia.
>>52232651
but Swedes assigned a name to it ("Finland" or "Österland") before Finns were literate, so who is to say our name isn't the real one?
>>52233021
Because the tribe it is named after was there before you guys came?
>>52233021
Actually it already got the name Kvenland in german texts before Swedes even wrote anything
Word Suomi comes from word Suomaa, which means Swamp land.
>>52233424
It's all ogre now.
>>52233424
It makes all sense now
>>52234126
Well of course it does, this is how the map looked like after we had just pushed back the glacial and settled these lands to establishing our eternal civilization. Mostly wet lands, naming it Suomaa is just natural
Kalevala wouldn't be a bad name. As in the land of Kaleva.
