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Payment via SEPA bank transfer or PayPal. 1) New old stock Billnäs/Fiskars 1133 axes with 85mm (c. 3.4 in.) chromium-vanadium steel blade and factory birch handle. Made in the 1960s or early 1970s when Fiskars started branding Billnäs with their own name. Some have some lost paint in the blade...

Surprisingly enough, the Helsinki Christmas Market will be again open between 2 and 22 December 2017. See Twodogs's magnificent report from 2016's market.

I take you mean with "genuine" that the pouch has been made by a Sámi. Such products are commonly marked with "Sámi Duodji".

Here's the farm the cabin was built for: http://www.etelakarjalanmuseot.fi/lyytikkala-museum-farm/

Several high-definition National Board of Antiquities short films are available in their YouTube account, here are two of them with English dubs:

In Finnish, this type of a knife is called "emännän puukko" ("housewife's puukko") or emännänveitsi ("Housewife's knife").

You can still buy brown Swedish welted m/59 boots from eBay for around 30 € / £25 without shipping. Similar Finnish ones are available for the same price, but currently only in Finland.

If anyone is interested, Finnish Defence Forces is selling their stocks of used leather gloves (with wool lining) made by a Swedish company.

Flying over one of the most remote part of Finland near the border with Russia.

While Kalevala as a work of art was edited and published by Lönnrot between 1835 and 1849, Finnish epic poetry in trochaic tetrameter was first written down in 1564. Finnish didn't become the official language alongside Swedish and Russia in Grand Duchy of Finland until 1863.

"Rauta-aika" is a loose interpretation of the Finnish and Karelian epic poetry Kalevala that combines various elements passed down from the Iron Age and the Middle Ages. The only thing one can find from YouTube is this behind-the-scenes clip from the official Finnish Defence Forces channel...

I changed the link, although I'm not quite sure if the channel allows foreign viewers.

The DVD have the original Finnish audio with or without the English subtitles. Like any Finnish DVD, they also have Swedish subtitles. You can watch a few minute long pieces of the mini-series behind this link.

You can nowadays buy a DVD copy of epic Finnish 1982 mini-series The Iron Age (Rauta-aika) for around 10 from Finnish online stores. The 5.5 hour mini-series comes with English subtitles. Here's a short sample of the mini-series:

Any leuku with Laurin Metalli 80CrV2 blade and the handle of your liking would be quite suitable, I reckon.

Function before fashion: if you owned only one pair of good leather boots back in the day, they were better be suited also to be used with skis. Docent of Zoology Johan Sahlberg with his wife at Helsinki in 1873. Two seal hunters at Vehkalahti in 1899.

Känga/kängor is one of the few Swedish words clearly loaned from Finnish because it is present in the same form in all of the Finno-Ugric languages located thousands kilometres from Sweden. Other shoe-related word loaned from Finnish is pjäxa/pjäxor from Finnish "pieksu/pieksut". Nowadays pjäxa...

None of the shoes and boots listed on the web site are in fact Saami designs, but of Finnish origin. Even the manufacturer refers them as "Svenska näbbkängor från Tornedalen" or "Swedish näbbkängor from Torne(o) Valley". Näbbkängor literally means "beaked shoes", where kängor is a loan word from...

A recent news article in Finnish about the factory with multiple photographs of the boots and tools used to make them.