# Finland- A Nordic Nation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2002, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finland-a-nordic-nation/132143 "2002-10-13T23:13:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finland-a-nordic-nation/132143/21 "2002-10-28T05:20:44Z")
Whoops, even though I previewed, I missed this blunder: Björn Collinder’s book is titled _An Introduction to the **Uralic** Languages._ Sorry 'bout that. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finland-a-nordic-nation/132143/22 "2002-10-28T11:24:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bark’s dog food \* > I agree that Icelandic is difficult to understand but it is possible for Scandinavians to read Faroese. I have to disagree on that one. Faroese is as incomprehensive as Icelandic. ---
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2002, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finland-a-nordic-nation/132143/23 "2002-10-28T12:14:05Z")
I find that I can read Icelandic better than Faroese, picking some random web sites in those languages, I loosely estimate that I can understand around 30% of the icelandic and only a few words here and there of the faroese ones. Finnish I don’t understand a word of. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finland-a-nordic-nation/132143.md?page=1)