Pour les pèlerins finnois vers Saint-Jacques, il existait encore une variante possible : les pays baltes.
The Baltic countries - the area which today constitutes the Soviet Republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - were, in the'middle ages, just as evidently a part of Europe as was Scandinavia, a fact that often tends to be forgotten in Western Europe.Giga-fren Giga-fren
Même la Scandinavie lointaine participait activement au phénomène européen de pèlerinage vers Saint-Jacques.
The cult and the pilgrimage also gained considerable popularity - a popularity which persisted in places long after the Reformation - in areas not christianised until the high and late middle ages, for instance Finland and they formed an important element of Scandinavian culture with an influence far outlasting the middle ages.Giga-fren Giga-fren