Finland Swedish Folklore Studies

Due to historical and political matters, what is, today, called Finland was a part of Sweden until 1809. Thereafter, the region an autonomous Grand Duchy in Russian Empire. Beside Latin, for long time, Swedish language authorities, education, partly science scholarship. Not time Finnish played important role as outside private sphere. German Russian, respectively, were used on special occasions. certainly polyglot region.
 Folklore plays great shaping identity not only single individuals, but also nations. The case demonstrates this very clearly.