They say that the Finns, equally comfortable in both Finnish and Swedish idioms, tend to employ neither if they can help it. "Silent in two languages" is how the playwright, Bertold Brecht, described them. He should know, having spent some time here, but my brief sortie into the Arctic Circle of Finnish Lapland revealed a rather more garrulous side to the Finnish nature
Inside the tepee, the firelight flickers on his crinkled features, the cadence of....