The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first millennium AD. A tacit truth held today is that the ethnonyms represent the same ancient Finnish-speaking group, only named differently by Norwegians and Finns. The aim of the article is to find out whether the ethnonyms have been used to designate different groups of people. The Finnish-speakers in the nearby Tornedalen has called the lower part of the Kalix River in northernmost Sweden the Kainuu River and the upper part Kaalas River after the original Sámi name of the river. According to theories on ethnicity they called the lower part the Kainuu River [Fin. Kainuunväylä] because they wanted to mark out the Swedish speakers of different ethni...
The article studies pre-Christian Finnic anthroponyms and their spread in the northern Baltic Sea ar...
Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruij...
During the early 17th century, Finns migrated within the Swedish kingdom from interior Finland to vi...
The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first mil...
The article deals with the name pairs Kven and Finn(e) and Kvenland – Finland in medieval texts, on ...
This article deals with the origin of the names of certain mythical figures in Finnic pre-Christian ...
This article deals with Finnish-language surnames (family names) in Sweden. These may be borne by Fi...
The Tornedalians in northern Sweden and the Kvens in northern Norway are two large Finnish s...
In the focus of this article are Swedish loanwords in the western subgroup of the coastal dialect of...
In this article, I shall examine how the personal names of the Finnish-speaking population of rural...
The article provides a detailed analysis of toponymic facts determined by the Finnish language influ...
Kainuu place-names of Saami origin (englanti)1995 (99)Alpo Risnen (University of Joensuu; Department...
The southern coast of the Baltic was for a long time an arena for active contacts between Scandinavi...
Abstract Towards the new land. Skolt Sami evacuees’ place names in Northeast Aanar (Inari) My res...
The article addresses an understudied problem of pre-Christian Finnic personal names in the toponymy...
The article studies pre-Christian Finnic anthroponyms and their spread in the northern Baltic Sea ar...
Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruij...
During the early 17th century, Finns migrated within the Swedish kingdom from interior Finland to vi...
The Norwegian ethnonym Kven and the Finnish ethnonym Kainulainen occurred at latest in the first mil...
The article deals with the name pairs Kven and Finn(e) and Kvenland – Finland in medieval texts, on ...
This article deals with the origin of the names of certain mythical figures in Finnic pre-Christian ...
This article deals with Finnish-language surnames (family names) in Sweden. These may be borne by Fi...
The Tornedalians in northern Sweden and the Kvens in northern Norway are two large Finnish s...
In the focus of this article are Swedish loanwords in the western subgroup of the coastal dialect of...
In this article, I shall examine how the personal names of the Finnish-speaking population of rural...
The article provides a detailed analysis of toponymic facts determined by the Finnish language influ...
Kainuu place-names of Saami origin (englanti)1995 (99)Alpo Risnen (University of Joensuu; Department...
The southern coast of the Baltic was for a long time an arena for active contacts between Scandinavi...
Abstract Towards the new land. Skolt Sami evacuees’ place names in Northeast Aanar (Inari) My res...
The article addresses an understudied problem of pre-Christian Finnic personal names in the toponymy...
The article studies pre-Christian Finnic anthroponyms and their spread in the northern Baltic Sea ar...
Samuli Paulaharju was a Finnish ethnographer who visited the Kven minority in Northern Norway – Ruij...
During the early 17th century, Finns migrated within the Swedish kingdom from interior Finland to vi...