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I (, Of the Originall of the Laplanders.
building houSeS, Sor theSe were to accommodate thtmSelves to the nature
of the place whither they came, and to forget thofe things which would not
be oS any uSe to them. And moreover, there remains Still a memorial! cf
thoSe that came out oS Finland, where they firft Sate down in the woods of
Tavaftia, near a Lake which they call Lappiakairo, that is the Fountain of
the Laplanders, who when their necefTary food grew Scarce, went further up
into the DeSarts, and the Finlanders purSuing them in Tavafiia,they retreat d
to the Bothnic bay, where they might be more Safe, and have more
conveniences forliving: and this is that migration yet in memory which
Plat-tin. Speaks of, vi%. that the Laplanders lived here for an age, or more, till the
time of King Mign. Lr.dulaos, An. 1272, who to get them under his Sub;e<3icnt
promised any one that could effe<?t it, the Government of them, w hich the
Birkarli, i.e. thofe that lived in the allotment or division of Birkala, undertook;
and having for a great while cunningly insinuated themfelves into them, under
a pretence of friendship, at last Set upon them unawares , and quite Subdued
them. But before this they were infested by the Tavafii under the command
of Kurk, which if we would Stridtly examine, we Should find it of later date
than about Chrifts time, contrary to Some mens opinions. As it happens in
things that are taken upon truSt, the Laplanders confound the more modern
with the ancient, making but one history of all that happen’d in the diStindt
times of Ericus Sanflut, Magnus Ladulaos, with Some other Kings before and
after, and that So confuSed and lame, that it is hard Sor any one to understand
it. 01 Petr. mentions at large one Matthias, Captain of the Finlanders, when
they Subdued and drove out the Laplanders into the furtheft and most
defc-late place of the North, whom Some think to be a noble Family of the Kurki
in Finland, and that he ceafed not, by frequent inrcdes upon them, to molest
them, till they promiSed to pay him yearly tribute, which he at length
weary of the long and tedious journey exchanged with Some of Birkarla in
Tavaflia for a part of Finland, whence followed what is most true, that the
Laplanders to the year 1554 P3’^ annuall tribute to the Birkarli, befides
whom it was not lawfull for any others to trade with them. There are thofe
now living who Say they have Seen rhe letters and conditions of the Kurks
kept in Erfnees , an allotment of Lulalapmar\, by onc Jo. Nilfon. Which
things are So far from being immediatly after the birth of Chrifi, that they may
be reasonably thought to have bin Since Mag. Ladulaos, unleSswecan imagine
that 01. Petr. by his Tavafii and Bnneus by Birkarli meant the Same people,
Since there were other Birkarli inhabitants oS TavaSha, who choSe them a
Captain named Kurk, under whom they drove cut the Laplanders out’of
the Borders of the Eastern Bothnia, and made them tributary , and the
letters miy not be afcribed to Kurk., but to Ladulaos, in which he had granted
the Birkarli the priviledge to receive tribute of the Lapps, and of trafficking
with them , for it is not probable that Kurk., though he was their chofen
Captain, was to have all the benefit of the Laplanders to himSelf, So as by
contract to tranfer to the Birkarlih\% right.For theTavafl/t were either a free
People and fo Shared among one another whatever they got, orelfe under fome
Prince, and fo could not give another what was not their own , but their
Masters. Befides if they did give Kurkjiny thing, as Some Villages , or the
like, it was not from any bargain that they were to receive in its (lead
tribute from the Laplanders, but as a reward to himfelS Sor his pains and
conduct in the war. But whatever may be Said of-Airland the ’tis certain
the
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