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Hunger brought Finland the years of death This video tells about an event that drifted into extreme horror at the end of the great years of hunger. The event takes place in a remote wilderness in North Karelia, the nearest neighbor is said to have been 10 km from Tiainen's house. The Great Death Years were the period of 1695–1697, the rare cold years that afflicted Northern Europe. At that time, especially in Finland, the grain harvests were unusually scarce or lost completely due to bad weather. It is estimated that a quarter or even a third of the entire population in Finland died of hunger and disease at that time. The entire 17th century and especially the years 1695-1697 were very rainy and cold in our country. In the climate history of Europe, the end of the 17th century was a particularly cold time. We lived in the so-called Little Ice Age. In addition, the growing season was very short and the summers were very rainy. As a result, during the two hardest years, the harvest was at a minimum. In some places it was almost not available at all. Pettuleipä was an emergency food that was obtained from the layer of pine needles and needles under the bark. Straw flour, nettle, lichen, wound bark, alder buds, salt hay and even animal carcasses, skins and fetuses could also be used as food. I took the metal detector with me to the shoot and it got a few signals. https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suure... https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-6256629 https://www.kirkkojakaupunki.fi/-/nal... https:/ /www.kaleva.fi/nalka-toi-kuole... https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi... Cover image. Robert Wilhelm Ekman Beggar family on the road, 1860 #excursion #history #Finland