Why Romans didn't go to Finland? Why besides of Finns no one didn't want to come here except Swedes in 1000's?

Why Romans didn't go to Finland? Why besides of Finns no one didn't want to come here except Swedes in 1000's?

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Because frozen shithole. Normans came to fucking Sicily, imagine how tired they were of their homeland.

shitty soil and long winters. better question would be why there were people living in finland, when they could've gone to southern europe

They didn't want to fight. Simple as.

Because of the germanic tribes and shit.

it took you 10000years to finally understand that eesti and ungari were right about going south?

the most recent finno-ugrics came from south or russia to estonia and some of them continued to north and those would be us

>Suur-Suomi
>without Viro

too fucking far
germania was already a shithole so why go further?

the roman historian tacitus did manage to describe the tribes living further north from the germanic tribes. he explicitly notes on the aestii (later to become eesti), but it's a long way from here to finland if your primary mode of transportation is horse or some shit like that

Too afraid of the mighty Finn horde.

Snow is kryptonite to those that carry the blood of Kara Boga

Tacitus also wrote about "fenni" in his book Germania:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenni

It's a bit uncertain was he referring to finnish tribes, but linguistics seems to indicate that.

Because they didn't made it over the Rhine

Getting a traveler making notes there is easier than a whole army.

>Getting a traveler making notes there is easier than a whole army.
i knew someone would bring this up. nevertheless, i think the point is solid: there were romans up that far north, just not the fighting kind

>"In wonderful savageness live the nation of the Fenni, and in beastly poverty, destitute of arms, of horses, and of homes; their food, the common herbs; their apparel, skins; their bed, the earth; their only hope in their arrows, which for want of iron they point with bones. Their common support they have from the chase, women as well as men; for with these the former wander up and down, and crave a portion of the prey. Nor other shelter have they even for their babes, against the violence of tempests and ravening beasts, than to cover them with the branches of trees twisted together; this a reception for the old men, and hither resort the young. Such a condition they judge more happy than the painful occupation of cultivating the ground, than the labour of rearing houses, than the agitations of hope and fear attending the defense of their own property or the seizing that of others. Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished."
very romantic

Seriously how can anyone live in snowy conditions without a house? seems crazy.

Imagine how life would be if we joined together in 1930's

harden the fuck up?

we have a saying here: people are like pigs, they adapt to everything.

But why would he call them "Fenni", where did that name even come from (seeing as Uralic languages typically don't have the consonant /f/)?

>people are like pigs, they adapt to everything.
Almost the same here. Though we don't refer to ourselves as pigs.

Sounds nice desu

Lol

it's self-irony of sorts. the pig is just a container animal to draw attention to the amazing ability to adapt. notice how different the fat pink skin no hair pig in a farm eaten in winter solstice is to the wild boar, lean, angry, hairy as fuck with beastly fangs that lives in the woods?

"Finn", "Fenn" or something like that was a name swedes and other people nearby used for a finnish tribe or tribes

We wuz Jotuns and shiittt.

the more i think about it the more amazing this shit gets. so there's this roman dude right. dangling about in the outskirts of what anyone at that time would have called the end of the world. he and anyone else of his time in his region probably doesn't even consider anything not spoken in rome to really be a real language. calling it a culture "bar-bar-bars"? wtf lol claudius go sleep it off, imbecile, they . and yet... he somehow manages to describe, albeit not really accurately and not in great detail, but still, cultures thousands of kilometers away from what the culturally limited people of his home thought didn't even exist. this guy is a hero

Yeah, that's probably true.
The romans spread pretty far with their exploring etc.

When you think about it it's not that different from National Geographic guys visiting remote primitive tribes

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No resources, extremely poor and populate by people who barely even practiced agriculture, not worth the cost of putting a legion or two there to fight off the G*rmanics who would attemp to raid them

>who barely even practiced agriculture
it's hard to do that, when you live on giant rock and the winter lasts for 6-8 months

The m*d fears the NORDIC brothers

>right, so guys, bets are on. again. are we gonna get cannibalized this time around or not
exciting isn't it

Good observation, Tacitus is actually often considered to be the first anthropologist with he's descriptions of germanic cultures and peoples.

It's even more impressive in the case of the Eskimos, I find. At least most of Finland actually has a proper summer and isn't permafrost, whereas pretty much the entire Eskimo population traditionally lives in areas with permafrost. They don't even have Taiga, instead they live in the Tundra where the only useful vegetation is stuff like crowberry shrubs.

What a miserable existence it must have been.

they do eat seal tho don't they?

ps. up until recent times in the relative span of human history we also ate seals. but don't tell anyone alright ;)

They, the only way to survive in such environments is to eat animals with lots of blubber, because the skin and blubber is where tons of vitamins and other nutrients are stored (thus, in the absence of any vegetation-based food, it's the only possible source of such nutrients). The blood is also a very good source of iron of course, and with things like bones you can make broths for calcium, etc. In short, if you eat literally every single part of the animal, then it's incredibly nutritious. To this day, they still eat a lot of seal and even whale because of how insanely expensive it is to import "normal" food up there.

youtube.com/watch?v=yGVdYiM5IXw

But of course, dumb leftshit urban cocksucking starbucks-attending faggot fucks take offense to this because "le seals are le cute xD", failing to realize how ironically neo-colonialist their attitude is.

Finn etc probably meant white or something in old Indo-European
So "Finland" could mean white land. Would make sense.
I don't think they invented it

I imagine it'd be pretty fucking amazing,especially if Karljala hadn't been lost to s*avs

it comes from that finnland was the last peoples documented in that book so they got the name finn like fin

Gee man we advocated for Greater Finland at the top state level between 1920-1940.

Yeah but it wasn't possible to do at that time because of S*viets.

Stay mad, losers.

you're the only LOSER here at the moment tho considering how it has played out historically

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What? All descendants of people who live in frozen shitholes are descendants of losers who couldn't conqueror warmer places.

LOSERS ALSO SHOOT WARM CUM INTO YOUR MOMZ COLD SHITHOLE XDDDDDDD EBINSKI

Cope

That map sucks. Finns used to rule over half of scandinacia and way over to the south,

Sure you did

Because you're snowniggers (much like us). Snowniggers are basically so pathetic they get kicked from every place except that no one wants to even remotely approach.

Give some source too

Also being stuck in cold Finland milleniums ago you don't necessarily think I'll go to Italy

People learned to survive at their own climate

>rule

Ehh no

Maybe "Finns" lived on a wide area (without knowing about eachothers existentiaaliselta) but those "Kingdoms" seem like nigger tier power fantasies unless you can give some evidence

existence*