The earliest European record about the Pelegers is the so called Anonymous chronograph, a list of tribes and peoples written in Latin in 354 AD by an unknown chronicler. He mentiones among the offspring of Shem a certain '''Ziezi ex quo Vulgares'''<ref>Th. Momsen. Ueber den Chronographen von Jahre 354. - Abhandlungen der phil. - hist. Classe der kais. saechsischen Geselshaft der Wissenschaften. I, Leipzig, 1850, S. 547 flg.</ref>