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Terra Feminarum
Terra feminarum ("Woman Land") is a name for a land in Fennoscandia that appears in Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum (Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church) by Adam of Bremen 1075 CE. It was probably a mistranslation of Kvenland and located in southern Finland.
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