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Why does the ethnogenesis of the Finnish people seem to be poorly attested, and why do their Medieval Norse neighbors seem to have written more about the Sámi people way up north (who I understand were called Finns before the term came to denote mainly the Suomalaiset people called Finns today)?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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