| The Lapps are traditionally an itinerant people, wandering the most northerly reaches of Scandinavia. |
| It has been suggested by some authorities that the original witches sprang from a race of Mongol origin of which the Lapps are the sole surviving remnants. |
| Maybe some of the adoption of Finnish was a way of distancing themselves from the Lapps as well. |
| While the Sami, or Lapps, are commonly thought of as the inhabitants of Lapland, they have never had a country of their own. |
| A hardy race related to the Lapps and the Eskimos, they were loathe to release their traditional lands to the newcomers. |
| In the first place, the Lapps speak a Finnic dialect which is classified with the extinct Chude, spoken in the early centuries of the present era in Finland. |
