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Fenni
The Fenni were an ancient people of northeastern Europe first described by Cornelius Tacitus in ''Germania'' in AD 98.
== Ancient accounts ==
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"''.〔Tacitus G.46〕〔Mattingly (1970)〕 The Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy, who produced his ''Geographia'' in ca. 150 AD, mentions a people called the ''Phinnoi'', generally believed to be synonymous with the Fenni. He locates them in two different areas: a northern group in northern ''Scandia'' (Scandinavia), then believed to be an island; and a southern group, apparently dwelling to the East of the upper Vistula river (SE Poland).〔Ptolemy II.11 and III.5〕 It remains unclear what was the relationship between the two groups.
The next ancient mention of the Fenni/Finni is in the ''Getica'' of 6th-century chronicler Jordanes. In his description of the island of ''Scandza'' (Scandinavia), he mentions three groups with names similar to Ptolemy's Phinnoi, the ''Screrefennae'', ''Finnaithae'' and ''mitissimi Finni'' ("softest Finns").〔Jordanes G.III)〕 The Screrefennae are believed to mean the "skiing Finns" and are generally identified with Ptolemy's northern Phinnoi and today's Finns. The Finnaithae have been identified with the Finnveden of central Sweden. It is unclear who the Finni mitissimi were.
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