Kven people
Kvens (Kven language/Finnish: kveeni, Norwegian: kvener, Northern Sami: kveanat) or Kven people are a Finnic ethnic minority in Norway.
History[change | change source]
In the 9th century, king Alfred-the-great was told by Ottar, that kvens were a different people [or ethnic group] than Sami people or Finns.[1]
Kvens were paying taxes in Skjervøy,[1] Norway, "five hundred years ago".[2]
The usual story [or traditional story],[1] is that kvens are descendants from Finnish[3] peasants and fishermen who moved from the northern parts of Finland and Sweden to Northern Norway in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1996, the government of Norway officially said that Kvens were a minority group. In 2005, Norway officially made Kven language a minority language.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bjørn Vassnes. [the invisible minority] "Den usynlige minoriteten". Klassekampen. 2024-04-14. P. 18
- ↑ https://snl.no/kvener. SNL.no. Retrieved 2024-04-30. "I skattemanntallene for det nordlige Norge på 1500-tallet finner vi noen personer som beskrives som «Quæn» eller «Qvæn», og slike kan også tidligere ha vært til stede i området"
- ↑ Forsgren, Arne; Minken, Anne (2023-01-09). Minken, Anne (ed.). "Kvener" [Kvens]. Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
