Multi-Dimensional Borders in Narration
Multi-Dimensional Borders in Narration

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the story of two Estonian soldiers (so-called Finnish Boys, a volunteer Estonian unit in the Finnish army), who escaped the Finnish army during the Continuation War. The reason for their desertion was the fact that the Estonians who were serving in the Finnish army were to be sent back to Estonia, where they would have had to serve in the Nazi German Army. They crossed the Finnish-Swedish border at Tornio/Haaparanta in the autumn of 1944. The story was recorded by the narrators themselves in Sweden in 1975. In the article, this story of the escape and state border crossing is dealt with from the aspect of experience and narration. Questions arise concerning how the territorial border is marked in the narrative, where the symbolic borders are revealed, and how the narrators interpret the moral aspects related to the border and its crossing.

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