More wooden buildings and some linguistical drivel

Following on from yesterday's post, here are a few more shots of buildings transported to Seurassaari from different parts of Finland. Some I have descriptions of, others unfortunately I didn't note at the time. Not all would necessarily be found in the areas contested with Russia/the Soviet Union in the East, but large parts of the country were overrun anyway in the GNW, so I'm sure models of all the following types could be fitted into tabletop action under some guise or other.

Mylly/kvarn/mill. A linguistically odd case (case as in 'example' not grammatical). For once the Finnish word seems closer to English (and especially German 'mühle') than the Swedish does. Obviously this is a tuulimylly (which sounds even more delightful than it looks - check it out on Google Translate's audio button). They had a couple of examples of vesimyllyt/vesimyllyjä* one of which has the water wheel laying flat (i.e. 90 degrees to what we normally expect) - maybe because it's simpler to construct that way?  * There are confusingly different ways of expressing the plural in Finnish and I have never got to grips with which one to use when, but the gambler's choice is the second one (the 'partitive case')

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly I've no idea about this one.

Or this.

Explanation for the picture below (Pertinotsa)

Pertinotsa house

Unfortunately I messed up with this and the next two as to recording where they were from. They are basically for grain storage, built off the ground to avoid mice. In the Summer, farm workers would sleep on the upper deck.

This sign relaes to the following two pics. Torppa/Torp is clearly one of those words common to both languages and translated here as 'tenant farm', and seemingly cognate with English 'thorpe' (Cleethorpes), Dutch 'dorp' and German 'dorf'.

The fencing here is similar to zig-zap split rail fences in the US.

Finally to matters spiritual...

....both Christian...

...and pagan? This pole is used in a similar way to English Maypoles with coloured ribbons and dancing, only at Midsummer's Festival ('Juhannes')

The church tower is a separate building from the main 'chapel', being some 30 yards away. There are other similar examples of this style in Ilomantsi and Taipalsaari in Finnish Karelia.  There are some much better pictures of Seurassari and Tamminiemi (see previous post) on the official website of the National Museum of Finland

And that I'm afraid, is it. I'll be back soon with another thrilling episode of the 1643 campaign in northeastern Lincolnshire. Will it be another Grim day for Lord Beddington Lane and his Royalists?