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FYI: that joke might be a little more racist than you intended, since the circled region is populated by a historically oppressed ethnic minority rather than the typical Scandinavians you were probably thinking of.
(Not trying to criticize since I doubt you did it on purpose; just taking the opportunity to make my Wiki-walking pay off for once.)
The Sami were the inspiration for elves in a lot of Norse folktales. That's all I was getting at.
Oh, so you not only really did mean that, there was a good reason for it.
Well now I don't know who to be mad at