Anonymous
7/22/2025, 1:26:22 PM No.213024596
>A total of 82 skulls were taken from old graveyards in several locations around Finland, with 45 of them confirmed to be from Pälkäne.
>The other remains are from Rautalampi, Keitele and Pielavesi in North Savo, and Eno, now part of Joensuu, North Karelia. They are to be reinterred close to their original gravesites.
>The skulls had been in the collection of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, which issued an apology for their removal from Finland in 2019, but did not return them until last month despite numerous requests from officials, organisations and private individuals.
>Nineteenth-century Swedish researcher sought to use the skulls to try to prove that "long-skulled" Swedes were of a different origin than "short-skulled" Finns.
>The other remains are from Rautalampi, Keitele and Pielavesi in North Savo, and Eno, now part of Joensuu, North Karelia. They are to be reinterred close to their original gravesites.
>The skulls had been in the collection of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, which issued an apology for their removal from Finland in 2019, but did not return them until last month despite numerous requests from officials, organisations and private individuals.
>Nineteenth-century Swedish researcher sought to use the skulls to try to prove that "long-skulled" Swedes were of a different origin than "short-skulled" Finns.
