There is a fun and interesting short documentary on the BBC -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0fdwnv0/the-hunt-for-a-finnish-treasure-of-immeasurable-worth

This is a story of a contemporary Joseph Smith with a dream mine thrown in.

It includes ancient folklore, outlandish claims, true believers and of course, fraud.

I found it interesting since I speak a bit of Finnish.

Sampo! Sampo! Sampo!

Heh.

I actually know about this because I saw "The Day The Earth Froze" on MST3K when I was growing up — and then actually read the famous Finnish national epic poem, the Kalevala.

This guy sounds just like Joseph Smith.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/lemminkainen-hoard-0016562

The Lemminkäinen treasure hoard was first mentioned in 1984 when Ior Bock, a local landowner, announced that his family lineage was one of the oldest in Scandinavia. He told press that he was “a direct descendant of Lemminkäinen.” The trouble here is that Lemminkäinen was a mythological shaman. This is akin to claiming divine decent from a gnome. Notwithstanding, Bock said a cave on his ancestral estate was home to the fabled Lemminkäinen Temple in which he believed “countless generations of ancient Finnish pagan treasures had been stashed.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampo_(film)

https://mst3k.fandom.com/wiki/MST3K_422_-_The_Day_the_Earth_Froze

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala


The Kalevala (Finnish: Kalevala, IPA: [ˈkɑleʋɑlɑ]) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology,[1] telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and retaliatory voyages between the peoples of the land of Kalevala called Väinölä and the land of Pohjola and their various protagonists and antagonists, as well as the construction and robbery of the epic mythical wealth-making machine Sampo.[2]



The Kalevala is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland[Note 1] and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature with J. L. Runeberg's The Tales of Ensign Stål and Aleksis Kivi's The Seven Brothers.[4][5][6] The Kalevala was instrumental in the development of the Finnish national identity and the intensification of Finland's language strife that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917.[7][8] The work is also well known internationally and has partly influenced, for example, J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium (i.e. Middle-earth mythology).[9][10]



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“I speak a bit of Finnish.”

erittäin vaikea kieli oppia, eikö?

Yes, a very difficult language to learn.