warnefrid's

Updated: May 7, 2025

Ruined cities, stopt watercourses, cultivated land falling back into marsh and desert, a soil too often saturated with human corpses offered all the elements for pestilence. If the once populous Campagna of Rome be now uninhabitable from malaria, what must it have been in Paul Warnefrid's time? Be that as it may, this is his theory.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge

Then he must tell us about the Scritofinns of the Bothnia gulf; wild Lapps and Finns, who have now retreated before the Teutonic race. In Paul Warnefrid's eyes they are little wild hopping creatures whence they derive their name, he says Scritofinns, the hopping, or scrambling Finns.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge