Fenni
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Fenni is a term used in some pre-20th Century works, though the meaning and origins of the term are uncertain.
In Jordanes' Getica (ca. 551) the Fennis were described as hunters, being people "who do not seek grain for food but live on the flesh of wild beasts as well as birds' eggs".
In 1896 by Hultam suggested that Fenni means "wanderer," or "nomad".
Whether or not the Fenni can be identified as the Sami peoples is disputed. Many researchers believe that during the middle ages some historians far away from Scandinavia confused the Samis with the Finns, who have inhabited parts of the same areas as the Samis.
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- Tacitus G46,1970 Penguin Books Translated by Harold Mattingly in 1948.
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