At what time this Country and it’s inhabitants were first distinguish’t by these names _Lappia_ and _Lappi_, ’tis hard to prove: ’tis certain ’twas but of late, for the words are not found in any antient writer, neither in _Tacitus_, who mentions their neighbours and forefathers the _Finlanders_, nor in _Ptolomy_, _Solinus_, _Anton. Augustus_, _Rutilius_, or others, neither in Authors nearer home (not to name _Jornandes_, _Paul Warnefrid_, &c.) nor in those who have writ the actions of _Heraud_ and _Bosa_, or _Gætricus_ and _Rolfus_, or King _Olafus_ in the _Islandick_, _Norwegian_ or _Gothick_ language: we find nothing of them in _Adam Bremensis_, whose diligence in writing of the Northern Countries, his _Scandinavia_ sufficiently testifies; or in _Sturlisonius_, who writ very accuratly of these parts in his own language. Therefore I cannot be so easily persuaded with _Grotius_ to believe _Cluverius_, who says they were mention’d in the _Peutingerian_ Tables, the Author of which is thought to have liv’d at least before _Theodosius_’s time, _i. e._ 600 years before _Adam Bremensis_: how then could he, that was none of the best Geographers, if we may beleive _Welserus_, and very far distant from these parts, give us any account of them, since _Adam Bremensis_, who was so near a neighbour, and had commerce with those that lived there, could give us none? Besides, in that Table the _Sarmatians_ are called _Lupiones_, with whom the _Lappi_ were nothing concerned, neither doth any antient Author say they were seated so far Northward: wherefore the _Lupiones_ there described are any People rather then the _Laplanders_, for at that time, when the Author writ, they were not so much as known to any of their neighbours, the _Gothick_ _Norwegian_ or _Danish_ writers. The first that mentions _Lapland_ is _Saxo Gramat._ Hist. Dan. l. 5. who lived and wrote about _Ann._ 1190, and therefore was after _Adam Bremensis_ (who lived about 1077) near 130 years, in which interval this name must needs come first in use. For _Saxo_ making mention of such a Country a great while before, in the time of _Frotho_ the third contemporary to _Alricus_ King of Swedland (who they say lived before Christ) doth not prove that ’twas called so then, but that that Country might afterwards have had this appellation; and I am fully perswaded, that _Adam Bremensis_ would not have omitted this name if he had had any knowledge of it. Afterward _Er. Upsaliensis_ speaks of it about 1470 _i. e._ almost 300 years after _Saxo_, and 200 before this present time. After them _Jac. Ziegler_ made a large and learned description of it, by which it came to be known all over _Europe_. For however we may meet with the name _Lappia_ in _Saxo_, none but the _Swedes_ and _Finlanders_, before _Zieglers_ time, knew any thing of it. And so much for the names of _Lapland_. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Johann. Tornæus._ [2] _Ol. Petr. Nieuren._ _Plantin. jun. Præf._ MS. _Lexic. Lappon._ CHAP. II.