Tags: Ethnic Group.
Forest Finns (Finnish: Metsäsuomalaiset Norwegian: Skogfinner Swedish: Skogsfinnar) were Finnish migrants from Savonia and Northern Häme in Finland who settled in forest areas of Sweden Proper and Norway during the late 16th and early-to-mid-17th-centuries and traditionally pursued slash-and-burn agriculture a method used for turning forests into farmlands.
