East Nordid examples

**kickboxer** · 07-29-2014, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by Not a Cop

Where she was working? Anyway you can do a DNA test of your grandmother, it may show, although from what i've read Western finns and Eastern ones have anthropological differences.

She was working in St. Petersburg. Yes, I've also read that Western Finns and Eastern Finns differ from each other more than eg. Germans and Brits, but I don't think this entirely is true. Western Finns say I look very Eastern Finn or from the Baltic countries :-)

**Amud** · 07-29-2014, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by kickboxer

She was working in St. Petersburg. Yes, I've also read that Western Finns and Eastern Finns differ from each other more than eg. Germans and Brits, but I don't think this entirely is true. Western Finns say I look very Eastern Finn or from the Baltic countries :-)

Lundman said that western Finns were "Tavastid" and eastern Finns were "Savolaxid", but he didn't do a good job explaining what the difference was. I don't think anyone else noticed a difference.

**~~Peikko~~** · 07-30-2014, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Amud

Lundman said that western Finns were "Tavastid" and eastern Finns were "Savolaxid", but he didn't do a good job explaining what the difference was. I don't think anyone else noticed a difference.

Here's a football team from Tampere, Tavastia (predominantly Tavastid)
http://ilvesedustus.com/joukkue2014

and here's a football team from Kuopio, Northern Savonia (predominantly Savolaxid)
http://www.kups.fi/fi/pages/Joukkue/71

(You can tell the foreign players by name). I would say the difference is quite small.