N A T U R A L ;H I S 'T O R Y :. fef
t SeS.'jii.-f; Jg| is &d^o?.%^iariugkkejirQrc a^lQn-
However, that jin^edietii [author1 d$ rh©t I jolh thy
Wfeefe^i ferthehr dikimfc habkatioiitonr Bia®fti§kitid>s
ctfi^e Rtf©s&
•-Butntbe ibrika^.l.^fefeejoiifi my
^ eftahlifti ithe. tetadsH'Bf biftpryj: -Which
of tkefe OOnjC&umkis'beft’ foxmdedj .a^peamfrbmi^dae lbtl^adj and
other fnofiiti<4ett«s colledted by j fe lleamed .Thoftnodus. ;Eor£asusc
who has cleaied) up -this pctat4oby\r£h^wji|igi, tthat. thcf the^AffESj
paitfy-dxpelied,' and’ partly unitedtd thfirni the ldigen^, ’pfaneipiffc
irhabh^shrflthe-^brth, <who w^eiSoinpreheaded: uddetithfiex-:
t€i#$e -flaM^ of ^lta^Ctmbri, aikATQ^.odirh^|edrfii£ed the.
lg h ^ l^ th d TUEftffiOfs-df the Afers*. and began,! ka ndliiYate the
laftdsy ' and to fotfske their anceftors more fimpfe wayc^hvingo
Inthe mean time* they were not all twilling! fo fihmittod this
great reformation and ithe many new edhMhs.4ntfodB@Q%iJwEieh-
theviilgar generally rejedl without exarmriatim-m ’aJhiagesJ tfi:
T l^ e waS as utlferlne^ai Idftcfer itgh than iter^k5pfc"®iitiJoe.-
313 Kef hati^tfeiSS farther to whithefjithd
triBgs- Finknders had' retired befdrel • fl^pfe' that rdhain e'd hdhind; jf arid'
obftinately petfifted in the^old ciiftoms, ihfld ttore; the; ancient'
drds,': Wtre looted tj|M>n hs alieSs,-<5aftd called; Keltrings,. -ipua the
- delcendatits.of -the Celfersy ort-Celtit; Thfe-is the deayaponr of
that ddfpieable' hamfe gfeibjfis h¥^b&‘l ^ a ,£iiteraiia'h^»K 'BaIfiiii>
et Septerttr. ad Ann. MBCXCIX. mMs. - Jum in' ai lettef-iitdm that-
great antiquarian Ottho $perlingiud: a Nottegian fciy birth, to the
Ldbcek collttftofs of the faid jbuhiaf, 'a few words from which i I
IT-,a1i tntrodtice oh the credit of the ikid author;
'•• -it Afa quippe in feptentrionem veriiehtes miferam hafic vitam-
cfehiebant, qtiatti Cfeltfe fefiplfeitata^
^»•. j pfrn-S<fifgjfr»{ytfifr p.ncertainrof.the'
> origin of ifib Finj and tapianders, and.is .ofipipiniony.'pfeat; they cannot Be'derived
ftote the Ruffians’, Swedes,3 or-Norvegians ; -becaufe'thc ftature of their body is lefs,-
neither ,arfe they fa corpulent, \ and .their compfexipn,; and :hsjr ’dark brown, which is.
the reverie.of the'other northern people. ' But this argument feems to me of rip great"
weight;- bedaub: as the ehildren of. Aidam, we derive our origin:from one.country:.
But: by length "of time,..and diffprence .of fclimate?, arfi become, yery^uilike;?^ '7 V'
thfcr, Bothm fize and. complexion,'’ for me1 extreme^ cold in wluclif&e’Fin-Laplanders'
livef in the Ittgidzcaie* does rriot.' only hbwudt their growth,: but lilcewife makes
rhnr complexion dark as well-asrhot plimates,. ,;whiQfL M. Buffon demonftrates., in Kis
natural hiltory, T. 11 ?, p. }$ f. and again in fett: 3. 1
2 memores
jsttoaffiam m HISTO R V of N 0 R W A T ,
memores; unde non mixntn iri; feptentrione dddeum nq®a?n peni-
tus deleiMm.effe,.';cu®ai;®emo Celtis amphus iitriilis ffle vdllefy fed
omnes, ut A&i rna§0ificentiu&'!sd;t9m inftituejie cuperent. Hind, in
Landnanht&lgai libro de. ori^hall^flandfMrum feripto, P. h d ei tdr •
p. <o?. Varo their' fua..vel x i x ^ u ^ ”4ferc».
that kuammer, i.; e.' Tam bme ,veftiti erant ht exidimaretit: ho-
mines, Afas‘iliac adveniffe. 1 Hinc Afas qjilaque vix homihes fed
Dens potius eredebant effe, atque Othinurn. fuum inde Helgi As
lki(ftum,.BeUrrx et magnurqlAiam vbcatisptj i ^d-T-3klexn igituc
fafenrri-cum pm fedacefenjEfAfe,et Afiatici ant'his regiopibus, r(Deltse:
ntmendicabula qbasdam hjomiiium’ hab^i'eceperuHilifet'jab^AfisrKlel™'
toBB§er:idpo diM-fuemn^j; queid Kecabtduni, apudtDgnos e^adhxtc
in irfu^;; hclsenim-'m^ndicQs et sdliflunos quofque: homiiium voctoe S ij
pergunt. Tecakinafia fane wacis ing^iignifioat talem qtii a aOelds«
pixadiit ut Ungling dicitur qui alx'Ibgo' .defeiehait: Skioldingpr, qui
adBk^oldo, T .ndbrdokinger quf a B^seto Lodhcok^s^^ ita iSeNt
tringer illi dici coeperunt Afis, qui a Cekig nqpab Afis exies^ity&e^
Agreeable 'to this account qf jfie.jdefcendant^^f the yfamienf
diftreffqd Celtae or Kelters, par dctifaxly m Denmark perhaps
jaaight with as ^aodia foundation,’ or at leaft with feme probabi-'
Jjty-- fuppofe that the Queners driven fo.jfer north, *-after uniting *
with ithe Bothnie Finlqnders, pr Fsenker I(^rrthey<ate.adfo called
FenUones et Fapnones who had; been alfb expj^led by the Swedes)' FitJasde«,
^yg; iife to: the nickname Fantet amongfb Us. iThis - ridnie!w¥L^wes*.
apply tp a vagabond, idle feti of people,, who ftroleabout the
eountm’ and who ltve by begging, cheating, .'land duevaag; .not
uglikP thofe we call Tartars in Denmark, Zieguetier -in Germany,--
Egyptians in France., and Gipfies imEiigiand., But though l am
willing t© give-up this feppofetion pelatingi tp th e 'Majne } y4fei I
believe that the ancient inhabitants of Norway, whoi "vyoflld not
fqShwt to the more polilhed manner of living, tfip new drels, and
the cultivation of lands, ! were banifhed thd^dtinfry. T atp' can?
. firmed in this by what Mr- Peter Hogftrom, who lived a great
jyhife amongft the Fin-Tap)ahders,: irffofms;;u,s iu his deicripdpu
of Lapmark, Chap. ri> 3. -that the Fin-Tapland^rs fefift
' upoti itj. ..'that titeir ancefiiors vver.e proprietors ,of all Sweden^ hsti
were expelled, and, by degrees wene‘confined wifhin vo-y narrow
, limits, juft as the Amorltes forced the chEdreh of Han into the
lif f &hTl IL . M’m m mom