Is there any media (Movies, games, documentaries) set in/about medieval Finland? Most things involving Finland I can find are about the Winter War.

Try searching for something about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala

Already planning on getting it.

Finland is not medieval anymore? :-p

Medieval Finland wasn't really all that much to write about, now was it?

Sweden, on the other hand ... and Norway before that ...

Finding specific information about Finland during the middle ages can be quite tricky. As Finland was a part of Sweden during most of the middle ages (starting from the middle of the 12th century, and fully "conquered" during the mid 13th century) your best bet is probably to try to find books about the history of Sweden, and hope that they give Finland the time it deserves.

Well, you have this : [url=http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw_screenshots.html]http://www.jmp.fi/~smaarane/urw_screenshots.html[/url]

For the rest, the territory is included in Medieval Total war ( basically, as a place you may or may not conquer , but are not likey to garrison with anything more than a couple of drunken spearmen ) or in some Paradox games ( as a province of greater Sweden )

I'm finnish and I have no idea. Lol :)

There is very little to go on from times before the Swedish conquest (mid-12th C.), as there are no writings from before that time, only a passing mention of the Fenni in Tacitus and a few runes from Sweden mentioning finlont or finlandi. After that, pretty much everything is from the viewpoint of the Swedes, until the beginning of Finnish nationalism.

Finnish oral tradition, much of which was collected in the Kalevala and other works, is a much richer source than the scant written history. Although its historicity is shaky, its influence on music and literature has been tremendous. You may be particularly interested in the works of sci-fi writer Emil Petaja, who drew heavily on the Kalevala.

Hmm, thanks guys, I figured stuff about it would be a little barren, I just figured there'd be something. I figured I'd ask since I'm playing Finland in Crusader Kings, and wanted to know a bit more about it.

Medieval Finland had the unfortunate distinction of being caught between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Novgorod Republic, both of which used the defenseless country for a battleground.

The "Primary Chronicle", or "Tale of Bygone Years", is the best historical account of these times, from the Novgorod point of view; there is an English translation, which a good university library should have.

I thought it was all snow until the mid 1900s. :D

If my memory serves there were already quite a few churches established in Finland when Sweden decided to star its "crusades" against Finland, and some of the writing from those have survived (though still not a whole lot).

There are some 300 surviving written sources from that period in Finland. That is not very much if you compare it to other european areas. For example (If i remember right) there are over 20000 in sweden. Quite a lot more.

The problem with medieval Finland is that there really wasn't one: Turku, the oldest city in Finland and also incidentally the city I live in, was founded in the late 13th century - that is, during Swedish reign. The old Finland was a peninsula, roughly ranging from current-day Vaasa to Vyborg, before the Swedes and the Novgorodians took over. The writings from the period were most likely in Swedish (and hence considered part of Swedish history), considering the fact that uniform written Finnish only came into existence in the 16th century.