As close as you can get lately, with FR mangling umlauts and foreign-language accent characters.
but basically the best and most badass sniper in human history.
And one of the nicest and most patient guys you could ever hope to meet, who got a happy chuckle from the really badly accented Finnish spoken by Americans who travelled to Finland in 1999 for the 60th Anniversary of the Talvisota the 4-month-long war between Finland and the invading Soviet Union. Our pal Tuco wrote about his own meeting *here*
And you might be interested to know that they say that The Legend will be in theaters in 2017
[look at the guy under the red flowers in the window on the left of the building. He fits right in, doesn't he?]
He took us aside and told us how much he appreciated his new American friends, who kept alive the deeds and memory of his friends who died at Finland's Killer Hill, essentially Finland's Alamo, with one single platoon of 32 Finns stand against an entire Soviet regiment of 4,000, but with one small difference: at Killer Hill, the Finns held until relieved and thereby won- barely. Four of the 32 survived.
A hunter and competitive target shooter before the war [he competed in the *patrol rifle* sport that in 1978 became the Biathlon event in which girls with .22 rifles and ski pants shoot at domino size targets; but in his time the service rifle was used.] His rifle was the Model 28-30, known as pystykorrva [Spitz-dog ears, from the shape of the front sight guard] based on the Russian M91 Mosin-Nagant. He still shot competitively and as a coach after the war, and sometimes brought his old war rifle along to military parades and Finnish veterans' reunions. *here.* 
