A person who lives in or works with fens (marshy wetland areas), or historically, someone who manages wetlands.
From Old English fen meaning 'marsh' or 'wetland,' combined with the agent suffix -er. Fen comes from Proto-Germanic and is related to words meaning 'mud' or 'swamp.'
Fenland communities in medieval England developed completely different cultures from highland areas—they built on stilts, traveled by boat, and had unique crops like reeds and peat. Drainage projects gradually destroyed these cultures over centuries, erasing a whole way of life.
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