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Scride-finnas

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Scride-finnas, pl. m.
A people who, according to Jornandes and Procopius, seem to have inhabited the present Russian Lapland and other tracts thereabouts, and even to have extended into the present Swedish Finnland. [Procopius, sigma;κριθίφινοι; Adam of Bremen, Scritefinni; Paulus Diaconus, Scritobini; Saxo Grammaticus, Scricfinni.]
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  • Scridefinnas,

      Ors. 1, l; Swt. 16, 36.
  • Ic wæs mid Scridefinnum,

      Exon. Th. 323, 16; Víd. 79.
  • The distinguishing prefix seems to refer to the use of snowshoes or skates, cf. Icel. skriðr a sliding motion, skríða to glide, slide in snow-shoes.
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  • Scride-finnas, n.