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[arlesya]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Icewolf @ Jun 18 2007, 10:20 AM) [snapback]295002[/snapback]</div>

Personal knowledge:
I agree in all terms to you two comparing to what I knew before and what I learned.
I just thought the eintire "jumping lion" (<- look at a map) would be Scandinavia.

Internet knowledge:
I look it up on wiki and googled for two different websites who stated that they all belong together and stuff.
And they mentioned that the cross on the flags of the mentioned countries symbolised their togetherness.
So Iceland would be in as well...? :blink:

Upshot: I'm confused. :dizzy: And unsettled...

Let's clear things up!!!
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jumping lion?? :blink:

Anyways...
to be honest, I've met Finns that love to say all the time that they are Scandinavians and some that hate when ppl put them together as one whole thing. I can understand both sides. Being Scandinavians makes them closer to Western Europe at the same time that makes them also closer to their troubled past with Sweden. Not to mention that the "we are all the same" always drives unique cultural features into the shadow. Iceland would be, in my opinion, also Scandinavian. Not to mention that Iceladic is in fact one of the Scandinavian languages, something that Finland doesn't share with the others.
But, hey, that's not so important. I just like picking on Finns for some reason But it's like a friendly joke sort of hehe

Actually I have a very nice book here about the history of the Finno-Ugrian people. Unfourtunatly I can't lend it to you because it's...erm... here hehehe It's quite an interesting history really.