COUNTRY LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES 

(Chloe and Kalila)

• There is 250.000 population of Finland in 14th century.

• The house in the village were built close to each other.

• Further inland there were scattered families living alone.

• The house are usually build in the both side of the road.

• Most of Finland was still not being used that much, only for hunting or fishing.

• Swedish farmers moved in quite big groups to live in the islands and the bank of the sea.

• Every village had its own blacksmith and a miller ( a person who works or owns in a corn mill).

•  The group of houses formed a farming village.

•  Farmers and tenant farmers formed their own groups. 

• Most of the farmers owned their farms, but some rented land from the king, church or the nobility. 

• In the villages there was a servant group, owing no land but they worked for the farmers. 

• The farmers who rented the land paid the land either by working a certain number of days in the year for the landlord, or by giving some of the thing the farmed.