Before we take a little break from our usual chronological narrative, (Next surprise episode or two) let's take a look what proto-Finns were doing before "Viking Age". We have mysteries, more Tolkien (he was fan of Finnish language after all!), Finnish weapon Angon and much more! 

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Mentioned in this episode:

Varkaus

Fennoscandia

Vöyrin Käldamäki

Käldamäki 3D-Face reconstruction

Cassiodorus and Procopious

Merovingi family

Eura-Köyliö

36:21 1">Angon Spear

Leväluhta

Israel Alftanus

Nature magazine 

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Ilari Aalot, Elina Helkala, Matka muinaiseen Suomeen: 11 000 vuotta ihmisen jälkiä, Atena Kustannus Oy, 2017

Georg Haggrén, Petri Halinen, Mika Lavento, Sami Raninen & Anna Wessman, Muinaisuutemme jäljet, Gaudeamus Oy, 2015

Juha Hurme, Niemi, Teos, 2017

Eino Jutikkala, Kauko Pirinen, A History of Finland, Translated from Finnish by Paul Sjöblom, WS Bookwell Oy, 2003

David Kirby, A Concise History of Finland, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Henrik Meinaner A History of Finland, Translated from Swedish by Tom Geddes, C. Hurst & Co., 2011

Pentti Virrankoski, Suomen Historia, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura 2019