Commissioned by the Chancellor of Sweden, this seventeenth-century survey draws on records, historians and Sami informants to describe Lapland, its climate, divisions and spring fairs, and the life of its people. Chapters cover their origins, dress, marriages, hunting, reindeer and the drums and conjurations Europeans found so fascinating.
A founding work of European writing on the Sami, best read as a document of what outsiders believed in its day. Download the free EPUB.