Yes, the general region helps. It can work the other way 'round too, you wouldn't expect to see such an axe in southern Sweden so much, it's a style corresponding to the center and north and the building types there.
You got a good lesson in another attitude towards commerce. The presumption I always have when I see these restrictions from this site, some even as severe as "Swedes Only" is that the owner prefers the axes stay put and not that it's to avoid an inconvenience. It's not only Scandinavian either though I'd say it is more pronounced there, not as much Finland - these being strictly my impressions so take it for what that's worth to you. Also, even though personally I sometimes have a sense of being the target of a kind of discrimination, I don't whine too much because in fact I subscribe fully to the motivation. You know, almost every small town will have its local museums there with their exhibition of axes, and now, somewhere in Central Sweden there is a potential vacancy. Good, much better an axe is used than strung up behind plexiglass.
There were/are all kinds of variations in dimension, it's the beauty of decentralization. That said, typical for these axes, ha, ha, ha, is for the toe section to be fuller, as this one once was and for the angle to have been achieved by a crook in the handle where the articulation occurs as the wood exits the socket. It was vital that the wood for these handles be chosen with the favorable characteristics "built in" as in a natural crook as it occurs at the buttress end of a tree and if not that then perhaps where a branch has sprouted off the stem though not the stem itself which is reaction wood and so unreliable. While you may have been surprised by the dimensions in real life of your axe, maybe you are familiar with the indigenous styles reproduced by Gransfors Bruk, also small in scale and it extends to much more in terms of tools but even further into typical Scandinavian design. I have the theory that it is even represented in the relics of the vikings though I don't have any of those and haven't yet been to Roskilde. I think it's worth paying attention to.