Lapps

As Old Norse gradually developed into the separate Scandinavian languages, Swedes apparently took to using Finn exclusively to refer to inhabitants of Finland, while Sami came to be called Lapps.

He admired the child care practices of the Lapps citation and pointed out how healthy their babies were compared to those of Europeans who employed wet nurses.

Like most Lapps, however, Roma also had largely abandoned a nomadic way of life and had permanent residences.

The earliest inhabitants of most of the land area that makes up today's Finland and Scandinavia were in all likehood hunter-gatherers whose closest successors in modern terms would probably be the Sami people (formerly known as the Lapps).

The professor also reported that the Lithuanians used to export A. muscaria to the Lapps in the Far North for use in shamanic rituals.

They were known to the Scandinavians as experts in wind-magic, as were the Lapps (known at the time as Finns) in the North.

While most Lapps wore ordinary clothing in their everyday life, Romani could be identified by their dress; the men generally wore high boots and the women almost always dressed in very full, long velvet skirts.