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The Fenni are first mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in 98 A. D. Their location is uncertain, due to the vagueness of Tacitus ' account :" they ( Venedi ) overrun in their predatory excursions all the woody and mountainous tracts between the Peucini and the Fenni ".
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) are known to have represented a farming culture for several last millennia, the Sami people were still " hunter-gatherers " in 97 AD, when the Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus describes them in his account ' Germania ', calling them " Fenni ".
Fenni and first
In the early Iron Age a word similar to Finns appeared for the first time in a written document when Tacitus mentions Fenni in his Germania.
The first known historical mention of Fenni was by Tacitus, about 98 CE.
The first mention of a Uralic people is in Tacitus's Germania, mentioning the Fenni ( usually interpreted as referring to the Sami ) and two other possibly Uralic tribes living in the farthest reaches of Scandinavia.
The Fenni were an ancient people of northeastern Europe first described by Cornelius Tacitus in Germania in AD 98.
Another theory is that Tacitus ' Fenni and Ptolemy's northern Phinnoi were the same people and constituted the original Sami people of northern Fennoscandia, making Tacitus ' description the first historical record of them.
His beautiful daughter Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, Seren y Fenni (), made two good marriages, the first to Sir Roger Vaughan, who also died at Agincourt.
Fenni and Tacitus
The map shows two possible locations of the Fenni, based on possible readings of Tacitus ( Livonia ) and Ptolemy ( upper Vistula river ).
Tacitus was unsure whether to classify the Fenni as Germanic or Sarmatian.
Against this argument is the fact that Tacitus distinguishes the Fenni from other probably non-Germanic peoples of the region, such as the Aestii and the Venedi.
It has also been suggested that Tacitus ' Fenni could be the ancestors of the modern Finnish people.
Juha Pentikäinen writes that Tacitus may well have been describing the Sami or the proto Finns when referring to the Fenni, noting some archeologists have identified these people as indigenous to Scandinavia.
But while this may seem a plausible identification for the Phinnoi of north Scandinavia, it is dubious for Tacitus ' Fenni.
Tacitus ' Fenni ( and Ptolemy's southern Phinnoi ) were clearly based in continental Europe, not in the Scandinavian peninsula, and were thus outside the modern range of the Sami.
The uncertainties have led some scholars to conclude that Tacitus ' Fenni is a meaningless label, impossible to ascribe to any particular region or ethnic group.
But Tacitus appears to relate the Fenni geographically to the Peucini and the Venedi, albeit imprecisely, stating that the latter habitually raided the " forests and mountains " between the other two.
Tacitus describes the Fenni as follows:
Tacitus did not know whether to assign the nearby Fenni to Germania or Sarmatia ( which extended as far west as the Vistula in places ).
* An old Latin name for Finland, along with Finnia, Finningia and most often used Finlandia that originates from an old conception that people known as Fenni in Tacitus ' Germania were Finns
Fenni and Germania
The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic people ( Chapters 1 – 27 ); it then segues into descriptions of individual tribes, beginning with those dwelling closest to Roman lands and ending on the uttermost shores of the Baltic, among the amber-gathering Aesti, the Fenni, and the unknown tribes beyond them.
Fenni and .
In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.
The town has one of the two Welsh-medium primary schools in Monmouthshire, Ysgol Gymraeg y Fenni, which was founded in the early 1990s.
It is also home to the Abergavenny Welsh society, Cymreigyddion y Fenni, and the local Abergavenny Eisteddfod.
Finn seems to have been in much wider use in ancient times, judging from the names Fenni and Phinnoi in classical Roman and Greek works.
The town was recorded in manorial rolls in 1252 as Fenni Stratford, though previously it was just known as Stratford: the prefix being added to distinguish the town from nearby Stony Stratford.
The Veneti have borrowed largely from Sarmatian ways ; their plundering forays take them all over the wooded and mountainous country that rises between the Peucini and the Fenni.
She became an early member of Cymreigyddion y Fenni.
150 AD, mentions a people called the Phinnoi, generally believed to be synonymous with the Fenni.
The next ancient mention of the Fenni / Finni is in the Getica of 6th-century chronicler Jordanes.
The vagueness of his account has left the identification of the Fenni open to a variety of theories.
It has been suggested that the Romans may have used Fenni as a generic name, to denote the various non-Germanic ( i. e. Balto-Slavic and Finno-Ugric ) tribes of NE Europe.
Fenni and is
Y Fenni () is a variety of Welsh cheese, consisting of Cheddar cheese blended with mustard seed and ale.
Y Fenni, when coated in red wax, is also known as ' Red Dragon ', a name derived from the dragon on the Flag of Wales.
The best known Welsh cheese is Caerphilly, though many other types exist, including Y Fenni, Tintern and Pantysgawn.
Fenni and uncertain
They have on uncertain grounds, but for a very long time, been associated with the ' Fenni '.
Fenni and they
" In wonderful savageness live the nation of the Fenni, and in beastly poverty, destitute of arms, of horses, and of homes ; their food, the common herbs ; their apparel, skins ; their bed, the earth ; their only hope in their arrows, which for want of iron they point with bones.
Fenni and ".
Fenni seems to have been a form of the proto-Germanic word finne, denoting " wanderers " or " hunting folk ".
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