I didn't make these up. Back in the day people came up with all sorts of weird human races and claimed they lived in far away countries. Most of them were said to live in African and the east (expecially India), but some were believed to live up north.
The difference between these human races and, say, nymphs or trolls, was that nobody doubted their existence and they didn't use magic. They were just people who looked or acted funny.Panots
lived from the most northern part of Germany all the way up though Denmark and Scania (Skåne). They had huge ears which they draped around themselves when they went to sleep or when it was cold.
Alongside them lived the hippopodes
, a people that looked human except for having horse feet.
Less widespread were the Oeonaes
who only lived in northern Germany and Netherlands, and up the west coast of Denmark. They looked perfectly human, but only ate grain and swamp-bird eggs.
These races were all peaceful and lived in harmony with the humans, but further up in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia lived the vicuous kynokefals
. They had normal human bodies but the heads of dogs. They understood the languages of the people living there but could only talk in a language made of dog sounds, and were well known for eating humans.
Further east in Russia lived the arimaspus
people with only one eye. They were different from cyclops in that they were the size of regular humans and for the most part peaceful. They were a proud race that only ate carnivore meat and fought the griffins that were believed to live in Russia.
I took the liberty of putting them in the clothes of the people living in those countries. Should be noted that kynokefals have never been associated with the sami people. I just gave it sami clothes because they lived in that area.