Viking / Norse Mythology As A Topic

Hmmm, doesn't work for me, I have windows XP.

In the For What its Worth department, I tried it on an XP machine and it came through seamlessly.

Pretty neat.

Hello




Ohh, I understand now, why never found that on Finland. Thank you.

About the list, I´m able to download on a excel file.

Fernando Moscoso
Ecuador

Edit: Hey on the list, two Finland stamps Scott 481 and B4

Europa 1992
Landing of Leif Eriksson in America around year 1000

wow.you guys/gals are great.i thought there would be alot of stamps devoted to Vikings but I never thought there might be a chance to find some with Norse gods on them.

also today I thought of a way to tie my farming topic with the Norse topic:

Thor the thunder god was also the god of farming I do believe

T.J.

Someone here [lithograving?] said the Finns have no Viking heritage.
I would like to know where you got that from. Do you have an historical basis for that statement?
My father's parents both came from Finland. I am a Finn.
Vikings were a ragtag bunch of nomads that came from everywhere including Finland. You can't pin it down to just 2 or 3 countries.
Besides, the borders of the Scandinavian countries have changed.
Land that was once Finland is now Sweden and even Russia.
People in Sweden speak Finnish and are Finns.
I have old Finnish books and artwork and some of the pictures sure look like Vikings to me.
There is a Finnish epic poem/story called Kivella and in it are descriptions of Viking like roaming bands of men and heros.
The port of Helsinki is right on the ocean. How could men of Finland NOT have joined up with Vikings?

Hi nutmeg

Vikings whether from Norway, Sweden or Denmark shared
the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse.

Finns and Estonians belong to the Finno-Ugric language family,
distantly related to the Hungarian language.

The Vikings did appear in what is now Finland but mostly as
raiders not settlers.

Now of course it's possible that some Finns joined up
with some of these Vikings but that doesn't exactly make them
Vikings or Danes or Norwegians or Swedes or Icelanders.

My neighbour was born in Finland, next time I see him I might
just ask him if he considers himself a descendant of Vikings.

Since I have had an interest in Scandinavian history and European
in general I have read a few books which I'm sure you could
also find in any library.

But for a very brief introduction to your Finnish history check out
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Finland

Here is a quote from the article

If you really want to know how much Viking blood the average
Finn has then check out this site concering the genetic history of Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneti...ry_of_Europe

This quote might be of interest to you.

Thanks Collin, I'll assume it's my machine then
appreciate you following that up.

T.J. We communicated about Norse mythology......I have a mixed lot of MNH Faroe Islands up on ebay now that has some mythology in it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...t_500wt_1047

Hello, good topic. Nutmeg, be proud of Finnish origins! Many nations in Europe envy them, it`s a rich country. But I have to agree with Lithograving. The Kalevala's (Kivella) central figures are not simple viking warriors. Veinemoinen`s favourite & most effective weapon were his words. His much more a poet, than a warrior. Ilmarinen is a hero, who with Weinemoinen travels far north after a magical item (a handmill), and they defeat a witch there, but he is also a craftsmen (a famous blacksmith). And the Kalevala greatly influenced J.R.R Tolkien (think of Gandalf- in many aspects Weinemoinen). The fact, that the Finns are not related to vikings, doesn`t mean they were no great warriors. And indeed, they're language is related to the Hungarian. And talking about relations: I assure you, that in the 10th century the Hungarian were doing the same, as vikings: not using longboats, but on horseback :)). Although genetically they are not related.
As soon as I found stamps, I'll be back :)

Here's a Viking ship on a 1920s Estonian stamp:

We are updating our master Viking list,
It is not obligatory, but if you Scott people
care to offer any Scott cat numbers to those here
that are missing, it would be great.

Just indicate the Bold Number on left then the corresponding
scott number.

We don't expect anybody to spend any substantial time
just if you care to share a few :)

Try these from Norway:

From Scott 382-5 set


From Scott 586-9 set


Scott 1403