Early Finnish Wars - Conflicts With Danes

Conflicts With Danes

Vague chronicle entries shortly mention Danish expeditions to Finland in the 1190s and in 1202. Nothing is known about their results except what can be read from a papal letter from 1209 to the Archbishop of Lund, which lets the reader understand the church in Finland to be at least partly established by Danish efforts.

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