From the series: Slash & BurnFinnskogen—directly translated as The Forest of the Finns—is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants—called For

Portrait of Øyvind Røsdærn with scythe. Øyvind is retired and used to be a sailor in his younger years. Even with the help of a DNA test, he has not been able to pinpoint exactly from which family he is descended. Øyvind has taken the name of Mattis, a historical Forest Finn character that lived near his childhood home.

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