Fennic

The native race, the Turkish or Fennic blood, was mingled with new colonies of Scythian or Sclavonian origin; [40] many thousands of robust and industrious captives had been imported from all the countries of

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

Ungrorum, and Pray, Dissertat.i. ii.iii. &c., have drawn up several comparative tables of the Hungarian with the Fennic dialects.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The native race, the Turkish or Fennic blood, was mingled with new colonies of Scythian or Sclavonian origin; many thousands of robust and industrious captives had been imported from all the countries of Europe; and after the marriage of Geisa with a Bavarian princess, he bestowed honors and estates on the nobles of Germany.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The Baltic was the first scene of their naval achievements they visited the eastern shores, the silent residence of Fennic and

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The Hungarian language stands alone, and as it were insulated, among the Sclavonian dialects; but it bears a close and clear affinity to the idioms of the Fennic race, [22] of an obsolete and savage race, which formerly occupied the northern regions of Asia and

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

North, the primitive subjects of the Varangian chief, were a portion of the Fennic race.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The Baltic was the first scene of their naval achievements they visited the eastern shores, the silent residence of Fennic and

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The Hungarian language stands alone, and as it were insulated, among the Sclavonian dialects; but it bears a close and clear affinity to the idioms of the Fennic race, of an obsolete and savage race, which formerly occupied the northern regions of Asia and

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The genuine appellation of _Ugri_ or _Igours_ is found on the western confines of China; their migration to the banks of the Irtish is attested by Tartar evidence; a similar name and language are detected in the southern parts of Siberia; and the remains of the Fennic tribes are widely, though thinly scattered from the sources of the Oby to the shores of Lapland.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765

The language of Russia is a dialect of the Sclavonian; but in the tenth century, these two modes of speech were different from each other; and, as the Sclavonian prevailed in the South, it may be presumed that the original Russians of the North, the primitive subjects of the Varangian chief, were a portion of the Fennic race.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765