RageQuit77
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6-1 Saksa (Saxons) win
I'm little bit more pessimistic about the result and it actually doesn't make much difference as long as they win this one.
More interesting is that notion of Saxons as a origin of Finnish word for Germany. The name 'Saksa' was already in use in Finnic language before Germanic, Saxon tribes moved westward from those areas that are now called Saksa (= Germany: particularly Lower Saxony, Saxony Anhalt etc.) Saxons still lived in their ancestral lands when the name of the tribe and the land was loaned to Baltic Finnish language(s). There are words in Finnish that tell how and in what kind circumstances the word was originally introduced to Finnish. For example: 'Kauppasaksa' ('travelling trader') and 'kamasaksa' ('merchant of goods').
Old loan it is. From same era when Germanic 'heim' was loaned to Finnish and is used as a Finnish word 'heimo' ('tribe') ever since.