The Kven People – the (un)forgotten minority

• Published in: Studia Scandinavica
• Main Author: Hlebowicz, Sylwia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Polish
• Published: Uniwersytet Gdański 2020
• Subjects: Kwenowie; Kwenlandia; wczesne osadnictwo kweńskie; polityka względem mniejszości narodowych; rewitalizacja kultury; język mniejszości; Kven; Kvenland; early settlement of Kvens; minority politics; revitalization of culture; minority languages; North Cape; Norway; Hålogaland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SS/article/view/5120; https://doi.org/10.26881/ss.2020.24.09

The Kven People have lived in the North Cape area since ancient times. The first account of the Cwenas is to be found in Ohthere’s of Hålogaland account, which dates back to 890 C.E., and describes the existence of peoples living in Cwena land in the north of Sweden. Kven people are said to be desce...