Crossword-Solution: KURK 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

But before this they were infested by the _Tavasti_ under the command of _Kurk_, which if we would strictly examine, we should find it of later date than about Christs time, contrary to some mens opinions.

Besides if they did give _Kurk_ any thing, as some Villages, or the like, it was not from any bargain that they were to receive in its stead tribute from the _Laplanders_, but as a reward to himself for his pains and conduct in the war.

But whatever may be said of _Kurk_ and the _Tavasti_, ’tis certain the _Laplanders_ never came originally from the _Russians_, nor as others think from the _Tartars_, but from the _Finlanders_, having bin driven out of their Country, and forc’t to change their habitations often, till at length they fixt in this Land where they now live: and that Country, which from the remove of its inhabitants was called _Lapland_, had the same name continued by the _Swedes_, who had conquered the greatest part thereof.