It has been generally accepted that cultivation in northernmost Sweden was intrinsically
associated with the migration of Nordic farmers into the area and that indigenous Sámi …

The scholarly literature on the Sámi is very extensive. until the 1970s, most of the
contributions were from linguists and scholars who approached the Sámi from what may …

This is a study of the Old Norse (hereafter abbreviated to ON) setr/sætr and ærgi place-
names in areas of Scandinavian settlement in Scotland. The elements setr/sætr and ærgi all …

This article analyzes the published journals of two Lutheran clergymen active in the Sámi
areas of the early nineteenth century Nordic countries, Petrus Læstadius (Sweden) and …

National and provincial policy changes during the 1820s usurped the land and resource use
rights of the Jokkmokk Saami to protect the rapidly growing settler population in northern …

Emerging Sámi archaeologies have overlooked the colonial processes of the Early Modern
period. Although Sámi agency is emphasized, symmetry, and reciprocity are set as the …

The Saami are the only indigenous ethnic minority of arctic and sub-arctic Fennoscandia
and the Kola peninsula of the Soviet Union, where they have been living as hunters and …

Rural economy is one of those fundamental aspects of early societies that tends to fall
between the stools of several specialists. The work of botanists, zoologists, geologists …

Olaus Magnus was writing his Description of the Northern Peoples in the mid sixteenth
century, he relied partly on what he himself had seen on his journey in the northern parts of …

Permanent cultivation is generally believed to have been established in the interior of
northernmost Fennoscandia later than elsewhere in northern Europe, during or after the late …