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your telling me they reached Malaysia before Finland??
The post says "known to" rather than "visited", though it's not clear what that actually means.
But there's very little in the way of written evidence of the Suomi until way, way more recently than the Roman Empire. It makes sense that they wouldn't be particularly interested in an area that was sparsely populated, not technically sophisticated, and had little in the way of then-usable resources.