Here are some southern ostrobothnian knife fighters photographed as old men in the early 1900's.

by Lapamato1323

7 comments
  1. Isoo-Antti tais tosiaan olla aika isoo. Mitkäköhän mahtoi olla miehen raamit?

  2. They’d be inbred if folks at that time had ever heard of bread.

  3. I’d rather call them troublemakers than knife fighters, because the other parties weren’t always even armed.

  4. Kankaanpään Jussi on kyllä aika pelottavan näkönen kaveri

  5. https://preview.redd.it/y8pc71pjogse1.jpeg?width=1147&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16ff264182be0ebd99dfe26c6481ba3b443772aa

    Matti Hautakoski (Länttä) from Ullava, middle ostrobothnia.

    Läntän Iso-Matti was known from his strength. Story tells that he once put Isontalon Antti in a hay carriage and that Antti was too afraid to come down from there. It seems to have been common that people from neighboring areas compared their strongest men to the southern ostrobothnian men.

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