| | A Concise History of Finland - Cambridge University Press |
 | | The retreating mass of ice scoured the crystalline bedrock of the Fenno-Scandian shield, leaving in its wake thousands of shallow lakes, eskers and drumlins, and a deeply indented coastline that is still emerging from the sea as the land recovers from the tremendous compression of the glaciers. |
| | These people appear to have settled largely south of the Gulf of Finland, though one group from which the Sami are linguistically descended seems to have broken away at an early stage and migrated to the lands north of the great lakes of Ladoga and Onega. |
| | The word ‘Finland’ came into common usage during the middle ages, though the area it was meant to embrace remained vague and ill defined. |
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