The wife-carrying competition has its roots in a legend of Ronkainen the Robber and his gang who lived in the forests and stole food and girls from villages.

Finns win wife-carrying world championship | Reuters

For shame, Finland, I thought you were a progressive country, for the love of Odin. Celebrating mass rape and using women as spoils of guerrilla? Yeah, the patriarchy surely approves.


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