Chud or Chude (чудь, in Finnic languages: tshuudi, tšuudi, čuđit) is a term historically applied in the early Russian annals to several Finnic peoples in the area of what is now Estonia, Karelia and Northwestern Russia. Perhaps the earliest written use of the term `Chudes` to describe proto-Estonians was ca. 1100, by the monk Nestor, in t..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chud