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THE HISTORY
OF
LAPLAND
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CHAP. I.
Of the Name of Lapland.
This Country doth not every where pass by the same name. By some
’tis called Lappia, as Johann. Magnus in the Preface of his history, and
Saxo Grammat. in his 5th book; by others Lapponia, as Olaus Magnus in
the explication of his Map of Scandinavia, and Ziegler in his description
of the Northern Countries, and before these Ericus Versaliensis, and after
them Andr. Buræus. The Swedes usually call the Country Lapmarkia, in whose
language Mark signifies Land; the Danes and Norwegians, Laplandia, and also
Findmarkia, as appears from Petr. Claudus description of Norway: for no one
can gather any thing else but an account of this Country, from his whole
38th Chapt. which himself too seems to intimate, when he promises more about
Findmarkia in his description of Lapland. Of i’ts being call’d Findmark, I
shall speak in another place; Now we will see why ’tis call’d Lapponia and
Lappia, the Etymology of which words is not yet agreed upon by the Learned.
Ziegler thinks they were named so by the Germans, from the dulness and
stupidity of the people, which the word Lappi signifies amongst them; but this
seems improbable, since this Country is but of late known to the Germans, and
none of their antient Writers make any mention of Lappia. Moreover, the
Finlanders, Swedes and Russians, who differ much in their language from one
another, as well as from the Germans, call it all by the same name; and the
Germans, who are so remote from Lapland, could not transmit this name to
these more Northern Countries, especially when they had little or no
commerce with them. Neither are the people so very dull and stupid; as Ziegler
himself afterwards acknowledges, when he confesses they are good at the needle,
and make delicate embroidered clothes. Neither can I assent to Wexionius’s
opinion, that the Swedes gave them this name from their wearing of Skins;
for Lapper and Skinlapper do not signify skins, but the same as the Greeks
ῥ́ακοι (in English Rags) from whence Ol. Petr. Nieuren, who writ of Lapland
in Gustavus Adolphus’s time, derives their name from their coming into Swedland
every year with rags lapt about them, which is the signification of Lapp in that
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