Suoma or Suomalaiseb, in 'the singular Suomalaihen. ' The
Lappes ferm themselves - Same, Sabme^dr: Sabmeladste p
Travellers'indeed have been struck by th#idiflPereni>~aspect
of the Finns and-Lappes. M -Von-Buch 'has'vemarked that although
thesemations have the same origin:theyiWereprobably
separated before they came to inhabit the north. He SuppdsCs
that the Lappei^dess6erided from the White Sea towards S w e den
and -Norway> and that the Finns came up from Esthonia;?
JSfeijer observes th a t the eaiAieStdiistoricai traGe#of theiKnns
and Lappesj-suppotting as-they dothe&ffinityio$the' two na-
tk®S,?:ib i|a ^ tt^ In o n y t-fie ^ p i|o ^ thefc!® #® iy^^id :e g p l||
separation. The' Lappes have» been'- from time ? immemorial
pressed ^continually farther towards the north/and
by f^PSwedfetiaddSlorwegians to the westward, butiequally
by Finns on the Astern side of the'Baltic, where/many circumstances
indidate that the Lappes foibferly-possessed tferrheries,
now inthe Uicnpation of (s^teiine Finns'. -P1 anesirheadhyg ‘the-
name o f the te p p ls areTound in F'infikbdM^Trib^fiivBfopw
landeMfstill wandered on the®orthernTa\Asffand^ inatfeupper
Savolax and in East 1 JothniaJluring the fifteenth dferituryf and
were gradually obliged tu retire northward .# The^gteafeUv»^'
her of Lappish names which are spread thodghl Firmland in
the Finnish and Swedish districts,'supported by the consenting?
traditions of both Finns and Lappes, are th o u g h t b y ; these'
antiquarians who have most carefully examined tffisysubjdet
to afford sufficient proof that the Lappes once inhabitedeven
the southern parts of Finnland. That they were the aboriginal»
inhabitants of Scandinavia is the most probable conclusion; and
this is maintained by-their own national traditions.f That
this weak, unwarlike people should have left an impression
of terror on the* minds of our ancestors,” says M. Geijer, “ is
indeed difficult to u n d e r s ta n d b u t it is a difficulty which
vanishes when we take into the account the influence of a
poetical imagination on the composition o f our sagas, and consider
that the great numbers of hostile bands, ,and the circum*
Dissertatio Acad, de Bircarlis, prassid. H. G. Porthan, E. M. Frantzen, Abo®,
1789.
j- Hogsftpm iiber Sie Lappen, Geijer, D£tftsch*ubersetz, 350.
stances under which tbeyt'eHgag-ed, may have rendered them
formidable*' though - individually^ infirm ; and -that there ; are
seme Lappish t i l f e of greater stature and bravery than the
rest. I t is moreover *,unquestionabl e. th a t Finnish tribes were
to b e found «at-an early period inhibes present^Swedishi Nord- 1
land, and th^s^were certainly«Hfeàûded! under the name of
lot uns or lotnen. | There isdnoidoubt that the Quæns were a
tribe*of thisJesteription. In;the, ninthtoeutury^they wandered
abouithn4 he»fosests tO).the-n0Jlthward''fff|fSw©den-.* In Harold
Barfager’s time Quænlandreached; as far as Helsingland; next
tqQmmland wasf Finnland,;beyond- it Kiri#land. or Karelia,
and above all these J a y Finnmark or the Lappmarks. A
singular mistake in dheuold'writers indicates-»that this people,-
thé'Quæns, were-in 'the/immediate vicinity/oTthe,Swedes at an
earlier period than it is generally supposed. gj Adam of Bremen
speaks of Quinnaland—Quæn-landr or the:; land of women
—to the- northward of Swedfeh¥y. .Heiwas led ; to this notion by
an obviousmistake^of names-; and hence, the fabulous orapre-
se®tqtioiaf:t©5 be Jo u n d ; in authors:? of a northern: ©puntiyfeof
•Amazons.:. Hence it happened, also that Paul,:sontof Warne-
■fsdiiUm centuries before* and even the older geographer*.of
Bavennaj hdd placed Amazons on the northern ocean.; Even
Tacitus.represented that ini the.neighbourhood of the Swedes’
dwelt a nation who were,governed by women:*
v;* A ^ ;Aeyi&uimMe'- nations:when Jhfeys made t h i # #àfvt©-
wards .the :Bsaltic;j and beyond that sea, found the«,countries
which they elite-red from the middle region of Europe preoccupied
by people of the Finnish and Lappish race, soJheiSla-
vonian Russians' in the eastern parts met with tribes of the
m âîfothe countries, reaching fronrthe gulf of
LiVôniÙ tO'#hd tJtelian mountains; Td'thèse tribés they gavé*
as we have observed, the name of Tschudes, which means
barbarians* or people alien from the -Slavonic’ blood. J In the
northern tracts of the Ural thisTast name- gave way to that of
’ Bgrians orOugres,'bestowed unJ tribes whose savage ferocity
and fabulous prowess are celebrated in the popular mythology.
* Dissertât. Acad, dé Antiqua Gente Quenorum, praesid. H . G. Porthan, subj. ^
H. Vegelius. Aboæ, 1788.
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