Why Finn Mark?

When I was growing up, I remember the currency of Finland being the Finn Mark. Since my name is Mark and I am going to be living in Finland soon, I played a little "word association football" (a favourite phrase of my friend Giffin) when I was thinking of possible names for the blog. Of course, the currency was really the Finnish Markka and Finnmark is actually a county in the extreme northeast of Norway, so I may have got this all horribly wrong before I start!