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I (, Of the Originall of the Laplanders.
(aid of their Second leaving their Country , which was about the 6th age after
Chrifi: and theSe perhaps are they which are Simply called Finni by the Danes,
Swedes, and Norwegians, or with the addition of Sue or /r/fM,obfolere words
of the Biarmians , becauSe they were more then they in number , eSpecially
aSier Harald Harftger King of Norway , who almost destroyed all the Biarmi
in battle. In the meanwhile the Finlanders lay Secure in Ftnmark., and all
the Biarmi being extinft, the name of Fir.ni obtained, and the name and
credit of the Biarmi was quite abolilh’t and forget. And thele are all the
times they left their Country before they were called Lappi, for rill after
this they were never called otherwise than Finni, Scritofimii, and Biarmi.
But in aSter ages we find them named Lsppenes, of whom Adam. Bremenfis
makes no mention who lived in 1077, tut .Saw doth , that lived in
1200-and therefore’tis probable that in that intervall of time, after they were call’d
Lappones, they made their third migration. But any one that will examine the
hiliories of that time, will Scarce find any thing that Should move the
Finlanders to leave their Country, as Ericus Sanflvs hath made it appear in that
Expedition in which he brought them under the Swedifl) Government, and
planted among them the Chriftian Religion, which he made in the year 1150,
when no Small number of them the third time Seem to have deSerted their
Country, and gone into Lapland. And the reaSon is plain,having bin fubje&’d
to Strangers, and forc’t to be of a Religion different from that of their
Ancestors, which thereupon was hateSull to them, and therefore no wonder Some of
them Sought out a place where they might live free: which is as good a reaSon
too why they were called Lapps by thofe that stayed, Sor they Submitting to
the£im/«,and embracing Christianity,look’t upon them as defertors of their
Country, whom fear only of a good Government, and better Religion, had
made exiles, especially when the King had put Sorth an Editfl that all lhould
be accounted banilh’t that would not renounce Pagan Superflition; therefore
they were juftly called Lappi, and care not ro hear of the name to this day.
And this is my opinion of their original! and migrations, out of which 1
Shall not be perfwaded by thoSe learned men who believe they rather came
Srom the Tartars, Sor we never read of any of them going into the North.
Moreover the Tartars live altogether by war and plunder, whereas the
Lap-landers live by hunting and grafing, abhorring nothing more than war.
Besides thecheif delight of the Tartars isin having many stately Horfes,cf which
the Lapps are fo ignorant,that in their whole language they have not a word to
Signify an Horfe: the language alfo of the two Nations is fo different that one
cannot poflibly be derived from the other. And alcho fome learned men, who
pretend they underftood both languages of Finland md Lapland, confidently
aver that they are altogether diverfe : yet it willbeeaSy to produce diverfe
men as well skill’d in them, as they that fay the contrary. Befides ’tis no
con-Sequence becaufe there are a few differences between the Finland and Lapland
languages, that they are therefore utterly diverfe, when this difagreeing may
rather proceed from the length of time than any diversity of the Tongues at
firSt, as we find now many Swedifl) words that do not at all agree with thofe
now in vogue, which yet do not constitute 2 new language. And their faying
the Laplanders could net come from the Finlanders , becaufe they alwaies
hated one another, is oflktle force, when the reafons of their hatred are
enough explained already. But it Signifies lefs that the Finlanders have
feve-rall Cufioms and Manners notinule among the Laplanders y as the way cf
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