Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

Comments #9551961:


MikeJ

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A Bad Day 5 11, 11:23pm

@Sirsir Per-ke-le. For pronunciation, try PEHRR-keh-leh and you're pretty close.

And while in modern Finnish the word is associated with the Devil, it's much older than the history of Christianity in Finland. Apparently the origin is the name of the Baltic god of thunder, Perkunas (even though Finns had their own god of thunder, Ukko).