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Finnic, Finnic - History, Finnic - Kvens, Fenni, Fenno-Scandinavia, Ugric, Kven, Greater Finland
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ARTICLES RELATED TO Kven | | | |  Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - The peopleThe term Kven (a.k.a. Kveeni, Kvaen, Cwen, Quen, Quain, Qwaen) - Kainulainen in Finnish) - refers to the northern Scandinavian people, who are of a pre 20th century Finnish origin. In modern terminology, however, only those of Finnish background living in Northern Norway are refered to as Kvens.
The towns and communities around the Varanger Fjord in notheastern Norway still today possess the most visible and strong Kven (Cwen, Kveeni) culture, traditio ...
See also:Kven, Kven - The people, Kven - History, Kven - Wars in Kvenland, Kven - Varangian and other Viking connections, Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway, Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland today, Kven - Historical usage of the term Read more here: » Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - The people |
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Nord-Norge - History The oldest culture in the area is called Komsa, named after a mountain in Alta. The first people possibly came around 12-13,000 years ago, but it is uncertain as whether they came from southern Norway or from the Russian Peninsula. Today the rock carvings at Hjemmeluft in Alta or at Leiknes in Nordland are among the remainders of the Stone Age cultures, showing reindeer swimming across the fjords. A significant find area is between the river Tana and the fjord of Varanger, where the reindeer probably ran over the isthmus on the way between the winter and summer grazing. However, we do not know the ethnic identity of the Stone Age cultures. ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Nord-Norge - The people The region is tri-cultural, with Norwegian, Sami and Finnish (known as Kven) populations. Norwegian language today dominates in most of the area, Sami inhabitants are mainly found in the inner parts of Finnmark, some of the Fjord areas of Finnmark and then in smaller groups in the inland all the way down. Finnish is today spoken in only a few communities in the east of Finnmark. Although the authorities today promote minority cultures, locals often oppose and ridicu ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Nord-Norge - Geography Northern Norway covers about a third of Norway. The southernmost part, roughly the part south of the Arctic Circle, is called Helgeland. Here there is a multitude of islands and skerries on the outside of the coastal range, some flat, some with particular shapes,like Mount Torghatten, which has a whole right through it. The inland is covered with dense spruce forests and rounded mountains on the Swedish border, the big ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Nord-Norge - Cuisine Northern Norway is surrounded by some of the richest seas in the world, and sea products constitute the main food source for traditional cuisine.
In the winter, the codfish comes to the coastal waters to spawn. Mølja, boiled codfish with liver and roe, is a rich delicacy that today is served in the best restaurants. In the summer, the colefish, or saithe, bites, and fresh saithe is often served on the beach, boiled in seawater over an open fire. Halibut is traditional Christmas food. Most fish is served plainly poached, so that the d ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Nord-Norge - Language The Northern Norwegian dialects share a common, musical intonation, different from the southern dialects of Norway. Apart from this, there is great variation in sound system, grammar and vocabulary. In general, one can say that the southern dialects, particularly in Helgeland and Salten, are the most distinct. Notably they cut grammar endings (like French relative to Italian). Further north, the dialects are somewhat more in line with standard Norwegian (Bokmål). In some inland valleys in the county of Troms, settlers from the inland of Southern Norway immigrated 200 years ago. Even today, these dialects have southern charac ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Kvens today - the Finns of Northern Norway In today's Norway the term Kven (sometimes written also: Cween, Kven, Kveen, Quen, Queen) refers to the Finnish minority people in Northern Norway, who have settled there before the 20th century.
After the Middle Ages and the migration of the so called Tornedalians the next larger migration wave up north - this time again reaching the coastal areas of today's Norway - happened in the early 18th century. The following Kven migration to Northern Norway - and to the areas that were a part of the Republic of Finland up till 1944 - took place in the beginning of the 19th ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - History The Kvens have - throughout the known history - been great seamen and fishermen, and thus the main Kven population centers all around the historic Kvenland territories have located along and around big bodies of waters, such as the Gulf of Bothnia, the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Barents Sea and the White Sea, and by the large fjords such as the Varanger Fjord, and by large lakes such as the Lake Inari, and by large rivers such as the Kvenland river (a.k.a. River Kalix in Swedish or Kainuujoki in Finnish), the Torne ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Wars in Kvenland According to the Northern Norwegian Viking leader Ottar from Björkoy in Hålogaland (Haalogaland) - a.k.a. Ottar from Hålogaland -, near Troms (Tromsa), as well as the Icelandic sagas - such as e.g. the Egil's saga by Snorri Sturluson - the Finnish Kvens (a.k.a. Kven people or Kvens, Cwens or Quens) were in charge of the large northernmost territories of the Scandinavian Peninsula during the 9th century AD, i.e. during the period referred to in agas in question.
In 1230 AD, in the introduction to the Orkneyinga Saga, Fundinn Noregr discusses the kings of Finland and K ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Languages in the territory of Kvenland 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 in the areas that once was referred to as Kvenland.
Those languages are Sami, Kainu (official name accepted legally in 2005, a.k.a. Kainun kieli - i.e. the language on Kainu - and Kven), Meänkieli (a.k.a. Tornedalen) and Finnish.
The four Finno-Ugric (a.k.a. Fenno-Ugric, Finnic or Uralic) languages are tought in the schools in the area of the historic Kv ...
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| | | | Kven: Encyclopedia II - Kven - Historical usage of the term 98 A.D., the Roman historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus wrote about the Fenni, people of the north. This is the first reference to the Finns in recorded history. (In reality he is thought to have meant the Lapps).
To add to the confusion, the Viking Age Norwegians often called the Samis either Skridfinns or Finns, to separate them from the Kvens, who in reality actually were - of course - also Finns, more so than the Samis, though they too are members of the Finnic (a.k.a. Finn ...
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