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•jo Of the Laplanders Fairs
perfefiion. There is an Ed id of hers, published in the year 1640, in which
two Fairs are appointed, one at Arfmisjerf in "January, the otherat AriepUg
to be kept in February. The words are to this purpoSe : lt Furthermore’
"We have given and granted, and by theSe presents do give and grant 2
Solemn Fairs, one at Arfrvis]erf on the Feast of the Conversion of S. Paul,
" being the 25 of Jan. the otherat Arieplog on the Feast of the
Purifica-tion of the B. V. Mary, being the 2d of February , each to be held for
" 3 daies, at which times it Shall be lawfull for the Pithenfes and all
"Laplanders to exerciSe all Sorts of traffic, and theSe Fairs Shall first be
’’holdenthe next year 1641. From this time they began to be more
diligently observed,and are kept upon thoSe Feasts to this very day , Sor in all
Provinces there are every Spring 3 Fairs kept; the firft in Lapmarkia
Vmen-fis upon the Feast of the Epiphany, the 2d in Lapmarkia Luhlenfis on the
Conversion of S- Paul, the last in Lapmarkia Pithenfis, Ternenfis, and K’tmenfis on
the Feast of the Purification. TheSe are the Fairs which Chriflin*
instituted , only that in Vmenfis I beleive was observed from the time of Charles
the ninth, and the rather becaufe that Lapmark is nigheft Swedland. Into
Norway they reSort and keep Fairs twice a year, the first at Midfummer on
the Feast of S. John, the other in the Autumn on the Feast of Simon and
$ude, or Ail-Saints day. And So much for the times and places of their
Fairs.
As for their way of dealing they were of old in all their bargains very
faithfull and just, tho Damianus a Goes Seems to note Some craftineSs in
them , and Saies they were very cunning in all their tradings. And Sam.
Kheen in plain terms call them cheats, and Saies they were So deceitful, that
one that did not know all their tricks, could hardly eScape being over-»
reached by them. So that we may SuppoSe that as long as others dealt
fairly with them, So lcng they were trufty and faithfull, but in after times
coming to learn how others had Served them , by understanding how they
had been cheated formerly, they themfelves learned to deceive others.
But of this we have Spoken before: and theSe thing may Serve to give us
fome light into their customs in trafficking.
CHAP XV-
Of the Language of the Laplanders.
IN the former Chapter we told you that the Language of the Laplanders
wasfuch as did very much differ from that of their neighbours, our next
bufinefs Shall be, as well as we can, to difcover what it is. Now
whatsoever is received, ufed, commonly, and publikly fpokep in any Country
is certainly a Language, but of this of the Laplanders, Zieglerus in general
observes only that it was peculiar to themfelves, and not understood by
their neighbours. Damianus fpeaks more plain, and accufes them of
bar-barifm and roughnefs of fpeech. Our modern Writers fay their fpeech is a
confuted miScellany of the Language of their neighbours, and that it was
called
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