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In a nutshell the roots of present-day Finns, where they came from. Some details
- Baltic Finns moved to Southwestern Finland from Northern Estonia. Men belonged to a North Baltic N1c1-branch (L1022).
- proto-Germanic speakers shifted their language to the Baltic-Finnic between 300-600 AD.
- I1-based population, the heirs of the proto-Germanic speakers, moved from the seaside to Northern Tavastia in the beginning of the Viking Age. The reason was that the seasides of Satakunta are open without protecting islands and robbering Vikings were a continuous nuisance. It was easier to move away. In the Southwest there was a large archipelago and "proto Finns" had a beacon system that warned about Vikings.
- after moving to Tavastia I1-men continued to the Ladogan where they mixed with local Finno Ugric people, whose men belonged to the branch N1c1-"Karelia". So it looks likely that those I1-men brought Baltic Finnic language to Karelia.
- after the third Swedish crusade around 400-600 Karelian families stayed on the Swedish side of the boundary, the rest on the Muscovite side, and those on the Swedish side moved around 1500 AD northwards following the king's (Gustav Vasa) order and formed the Savolaxian tribe after mixing with local Saamis, who were called at that time Laplanders (lappalaiset) and belonged to the ydna N1c1-"Savo".
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