Finnish Maiden
The Maiden of Finland is the personification of Finland, much as Marianne in France, Deutscher Michel in Germany and Uncle Sam for the United States. She is a young woman in her mid-twenties with often braided blonde hair, blue eyes, wearing a blue and white national costume or a white dress, she was originally called Aura after the Aura river in Turku. As a symbol, the Finnish Maiden has been used since the 18th Century when she was pictured as a a woman wearing a turreted crown, and then developing as Finland gained a national consciousness, and independence. Poetically, the maiden Aura has been linked to her foster mother, Mother Svea the personification of Sweden.
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Categories: Finnish culture | Mascots | National emblems of Finland | Fictional characters | Finland | National emblems