Cwen - History - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - History
The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - The People
The term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) refers to the northern Scandinavian people, who are of a pre 20th century ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Cwenland Languages Today
As of 2005 total of four Finno-Ugric languages have been granted a legal language status by the governments of Norway, Sweden and Finland...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Historical Usage Of The Term
98 A.D., the Roman historian Tacitus writes about the Fenni, people of the north. This is the first reference to the Finns in recorded hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Bjarms - The Finns Of Northwestern Russia
Bjarmaland (a.k.a. Bjarmland, Bjarmia or Perma) was a territory known up to the Viking Age - and beyond - on the south shores of the Whit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Cwens Today - The Finns Of Northern Norway
In today's Norway the term Cwen (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Wars In Cwenland
According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) (see also: Ottar from Hålogaland, nea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Varangian And Other Viking Connections
The historic Viking Age Norse sagas tell about the kings of the Cwens. Egil's saga tells about Nór, founder of Norway, and his ancestors...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cwen: Encyclopedia Ii - Cwen - Tornedalians - The Finns Of Northern Sweden
The Tornedalians or Tornedalian Finns are - from historical perspective - members of the historic Kven people (i.e. descendants of Finns)...   » Read the article