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- I already posted this on the English Wikipedia talk page w:Image talk:Scandinavia-12th century.png
This image gives a false view of the distribution on the Swedish speaking populations. On of the largest consentrations of w:Finland-Swedes is in w:Åboland, the archipelago connecting w:Åland to mainland Finland. The base map only shows a large gapping sea, where there are in fact are closely linked communities of Swedish speaking famers and fishermen.
Few of the islands are more then one kilometres from their neighbours. In preindustrial times the archipelago has the main traffic route between Finland and Sweden. Now the island communities are connected by the w:Archipelago Ring Road. In the 12th century this was one of the most densely populated parts of Finland. These people most likely spoke Swedish. -- Petri Krohn 01:29, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
- Petri Krohn: But the map isn't describing where people at the time spoke Swedish, it tries to show the distribution of the two political groups svear and götar.. But I suspect it contains some errors in this. When it comes to the 11th century it is furthermore almost so that the eastern variant of Old norse hadn't separated into Swedish (and Danish) yet. flinga (留言) 22:20, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
