¶ Finland, and Eningia.
FInlandia, is as much to say as a fayre lande or fine land, so named for the fertilitie of the grownde, Plinie semeth
The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
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- The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden.
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- Anghiera, Pietro Martire d', 1457-1526.
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- Londini :: In ædibus Guilhelmi Powell [for Edwarde Sutton],
- Anno. 1555.
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"The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes, with the particular description of the moste ryche and large landes and ilandes lately founde in the west ocean perteynyng to the inheritaunce of the kinges of Spayne. ... Wrytten in the Latine tounge by Peter Martyr of Angleria, and translated into Englysshe by Rycharde Eden." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20032.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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to caule it Finnonia. For he saith that abowte the coastes of Finlande, are many Ilandes withowt names. Of the which there lyeth one before Scithia cauled Pannonia. The goulfe cauled Sinus Finnonicus, is so named at this day of the lande of Finnonia. Finnonia confineth with Scithia, and runneth withowt all Tanais (that is to say) withowte the limetes of Europe to the confines or Asia. But that the name of Fin∣lande seemeth not to agree hereunto, the cause is that this place of Plinie is corrupted as are many other in this autour: So that from the name of Finnonia, or Phinnonia, it was a likely erroure to caule it Pannonia forasmuch as these woor∣des doo not greately differ in wrytynge and founde: so that the counterfecte name was soone put in the place of the trew name by hym that knewe Pannonia and redde that name be∣fore, beinge also ignorant of Phinnonia.
Eningia had in owlde tyme the tytle of a kingedome, it is of such largenesse. But hath nowe only the tytle of an infe∣riour gouernoure, beinge vnder the dominion of the Slauons and vsyng the same tonge. In religion, it obserued the rites of the Greekes of late yeares, when it was vnder the gouer∣naunce of the Moscouites. But it is at this present vnder the kynge of Suecia and obserueth thinstitucions of the Occiden¦tall church. Spanysshe wynes are browght thyther in great plentie which the people vse merely and cherefully. It is ter∣mined on the north syde, by the southe line of Ostrobothnia, and is extended by the mountaynes. Towarde the west, it is termined with the sea of Finnonia accordyng to this descrip∣tion: and hath degrees .71. 66. &c.
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Pannonia falsely taken for Finnonia.
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Eningia.
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Spanysshe wyne••.