tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427954556695420515.post5348760842432089212..comments2024-02-22T00:36:40.647+02:00Comments on Kalevan ja Untamon geenit: Eastward migration of FinnsMaurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03670078523265515878noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3427954556695420515.post-9399748289579689072018-11-12T10:27:18.313+02:002018-11-12T10:27:18.313+02:00This is really interesting. I've seen this doc...This is really interesting. I've seen this documentary before, but now that I looked more into the researchers, at least two of them have some very interesting papers at https://www.academia.edu/ both in Swedish and English.<br /><br />http://lu.academia.edu/MatsRoslund<br />http://lu.academia.edu/IngridGustin<br /><br />I know next to nothing about the genetics involved, but I think it makes a lot of sense to consider the possibility of a significant Baltic Finnic push eastwards along the Russian rivers - peaking during the Vendel Period if I'm not mistaken? Wouldn't suddenly flourishing trade have precisely enabled this kind of spreading?<br /><br />Would it then also make sense to think of Finland, especially the southwestern coast, as a place where specialized people, made rich by being involved in trade along with the Scandinavians, settled and formed a kind of extension of the Baltic Finnic areas south of the Gulf of Finland? I've often wondered about the Iron Age finds there, as there seem to have been relatively few people with a lot of swords and goods. The Iron Age material culture seems strikingly similar to that of Germanic groups. I wonder what the situation was like in Estonia during that time. Were the people there too an integral part of the same trade network, or does it even make any sense to distinguish them from those who settled in Finland? What sorts of finds do we have in Estonia? Shouldn't it be considered the Baltic Finnic heartland at this point?<br /><br />If I'm getting this right, apparently the trade was somehow interrupted by new developments in Novgorod and Kiev. Did this emergence of a strong middleman, so to speak, affect the relations between Scandinavians and Baltic Finns? At least there are a lot of mentions of warfare and plundering between all the groups in the Baltic region after the Vendel Period - possibly because of increased competition or disturbances in trade, or simply because we lack any documentation before that time? These are just my hasty uneducated guesses and I'll have to look into it more for sure.<br /><br />Thanks a lot for sharing this and for all the work you do!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com