Remember those ol'boys on top the Carpathian Mountains that run from Slovakia through Poland, Ukraine, etc.? One side you got the peasants with pitchforks paying taxes to the Turks, and on the other side they got nothing but vampires with long canine teeth, go out at night a lot, with preternaturally WHITE translucent skin.
They weren't Slavic, at least not until the territory became the personal possession of the Russian Czar. He sent in Cossacks (now called CarpathoRhaetians) who were supposed to run off everybody up there ~ circa 1806-15.
They spoke a now extinct Sa'ami language. It wasn't extinct until two months ago in fact when the last speaker died. The language was pretty much a dialect of Skolt.
They went somewhere ~
Now, do you have dwarves in the family? A dwarf is someone who as an adult is 4'10" or less. Our old family pictures have bunches of them ~ but we always thought it was because they didn't eat well as children.
No, but I’m Ukrainian and Polish with a little Prussian thrown in.
*sigh*