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 Leif Henriksson from the Hartikainen bloodline. Leif is a direct descendant of the original immigrants from Savonia and DNA tests have proved he is the person in Sweden with the most Forest Finn blood running through his veins. His grandmother spoke Finnish and his family have lived for many generations on the old Forest Finn farm of Pekkala in Nyskoga.

Facebook

Tumblr

Twitter

email