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are any People rather then the Laplanders, for at that time, when the Author
writ, they were not so much as known to any of their neighbours, the Gothick
Norwegian or Danish writers. The first that mentions Lapland is Saxo Gramat.
Hist. Dan. l. 5. who lived and wrote about Ann. 1190, and therefore was after
Adam Bremensis (who lived about 1077) near 130 years, in which interval this
name must needs come first in use. For Saxo making mention of such a Country a
great while before, in the time of Frotho the third contemporary to Alricus King
of Swedland (who they say lived before Christ) doth not prove that ’twas called so
then, but that that Country might afterwards have had this appellation; and I
am fully perswaded, that Adam Bremensis would not have omitted this name if
he had had any knowledge of it. Afterward Er. Upsaliensis speaks of it about 1470
i.e. almost 300 years after Saxo, and 200 before this present time. After them
Jac. Ziegler made a large and learned description of it, by which it came to be
known all over Europe. For however we may meet with the name Lappia in
Saxo, none but the Swedes and Finlanders, before Zieglers time, knew any
thing of it. And so much for the names of Lapland.
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CHAP. II.
Of the Situation of Lapland.
The true and exact situation of this Country the Antients seem not to
have sufficiently discovered. Saxo makes it bordering upon Jamtia,
extending its self as far, or rather lying as it were between Helsingia and
Finland, when in these words he says the Provinces of the Helsingi, Iarnberi, Iemti,
with both the Lappia’s, as likewise Finnia and Estia paid annual tribute to one
Domarus. Ericus Upsaliensis seems to make it a part of Finland, mistaking it
for a certain part of that Kingdome so called, on the one side adjoining to
Swedland, on the other to Russia, giving it a place between Carelia and
Nylandia. Ol. Magn. in his Table, and so his brother Johan. Magnus in the Preface
of his History, place it higher then the western Bothnia, making neighbours to it
Scrikfinnia furthest towards the North, and Biarmia towards the East; though
some [1] think there is no such place as Scrikfinnia, as it is certain there is none
in those parts at this day called by that name. But yet we must not slightly
pass over the unanimous opinion of so many learned men, especially Saxo, not
a little knowing in the Northern affairs, who have all not barely named it, but
have described the humours of the Inhabitants, their manners, habits and fashion
of their governments, with other matters belonging to them. Instead of the
Scrickfinni or Scricfinni of Johan. and Ol. Magn. I would rather read it
Scritofinni; and as for Skidfinni as Adr. Buræ would have it, all the Antients, what
ever else they differ in, will agree in this, that there must be an R in the
word. Jornandez calls them Scretfennæ, Paul. Warnefrid. and Diacon.
Scritobini changing f in b (of which and some other things of the like nature I
will treat in due time and place) Adam Bremensis Scritefinni: and the Greeks
agree in this writing, so that we ought not to doubt of the Latines. Procopius
[1] Buræus in his descr. of Swedland.
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