no mention who lived in 1077, but _Saxo_ doth, that lived in 1200; and therefore ’tis probable that in that intervall of time, after they were call’d _Lappones_, they made their third migration. But any one that will examine the histories of that time, will scarce find any thing that should move the _Finlanders_ to leave their Country, as _Ericus Sanctus_ hath made it appear in that Expedition in which he brought them under the _Swedish_ Government, and planted among them the Christian Religion, which he made in the year 1150, when no small number of them the third time seem to have deserted their Country, and gone into _Lapland_. And the reason is plain, having bin subject’d to Strangers, and forc’t to be of a Religion different from that of their Ancestors, which thereupon was hatefull to them, and therefore no wonder some of them sought out a place where they might live free: which is as good a reason too why they were called _Lapps_ by those that stayed, for they submitting to the _Swedes_, and embracing Christianity, look’t upon them as desertors of their Country, whom fear only of a good Government, and better Religion, had made exiles, especially when the King had put forth an Edict that all should be accounted banish’t that would not renounce Pagan Superstition; therefore they were justly called _Lappi_, and care not to hear of the name to this day. And this is my opinion of their originall and migrations, out of which I shall not be perswaded by those learned men who believe they rather came from the _Tartars_, for we never read of any of them going into the North. Moreover the _Tartars_ live altogether by war and plunder, whereas the _Laplanders_ live by hunting and grasing, abhorring nothing more than war. Besides the cheif delight of the _Tartars_ is in having many stately Horses, of which the _Lapps_ are so ignorant, that in their whole language they have not a word to signify an Horse: the language also of the two Nations is so different that one cannot possibly be derived from the other. And altho some learned men, who pretend they understood both languages of _Finland_ and _Lapland_, confidently aver that they are altogether diverse: yet it will be easy to produce diverse men as well skill’d in them, as they that say the contrary. Besides ’tis no consequence because there are a few differences between the _Finland_ and _Lapland_ languages, that they are therefore utterly diverse, when this disagreeing may rather proceed from the length of time than any diversity of the Tongues at first, as we find now many _Swedish_ words that do not at all agree with those now in vogue, which yet do not constitute a new language. And their saying the _Laplanders_ could not come from the _Finlanders_, because they alwaies hated one another, is of little force, when the reasons of their hatred are enough explained already. But it signifies less that the _Finlanders_ have severall Customs and Manners not in use