Sámi (Finnas)
The people Ohthere called Finnas, who hunted and fished in the north of Norway and paid him tribute in skins, feathers, whalebone and ship ropes. They are now called Sámi.
A voyage to the north: Ohthere and Wulfstan tell King Alfred
Ohthere’s and Wulfstan’s voyages, from the Old English Orosius, in Henry Sweet’s An Anglo-Saxon Reader (Oxford, 1894) · later ninth century, in King Alfred’s reign
Hē sǣde þēah þæt þæt land sīe swīþe lang norþ þǫnan; ac hit is eal/ wēste, būton on fēawum stōwum styccemǣlum wīciað Finnas, on huntoðe on wintra, ǫnd on sumera on fiscaþe be þǣre sǽ.
He said, though, that the land stretches very far north from there. But it is all wasteland, except that here and there, in a few places, Finns camp, hunting through the winter and fishing by the sea over the summer.
Þā Finnas, him þuhte, ǫnd þā Beormas sprǣcon nēah ān geþēode.
The Finns, it seemed to him, and the Permians spoke almost the same language.
Þā dēor hī hātað ‘hrānas;’ þāra wǣron syx stælhrānas; ðā bēoð swȳðe dȳre mid Finnum, for ðǣm hȳ fōð þā wildan hrānas mid.
These animals they call reindeer. Of these there were six decoy reindeer. These are very valuable among the Finns, because with them they catch the wild reindeer.
Ac hyra ár is mǣst on þǣm gafole þe ðā Finnas him gyldað.
But their income comes mostly from the tribute paid to them by the Finns.