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By the Fire - Sami Folktales and Legends (Hardcover)
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By the Fire - Sami Folktales and Legends (Hardcover)
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The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia
collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century Although
versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern
Scandinavia are found in European folk and fairytale collections,
stories told by the indigenous Nordic Sami themselves are rare in
English translation. The stories in By the Fire, collected by the
Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt (1873-1958)
during her travels in the early twentieth century among the nomadic
Sami in Swedish Sapmi, are the exception-and a matchless pleasure,
granting entry to a fascinating world of wonder and peril, of
nature imbued with spirits, and strangers to be outwitted with
gumption and craft. Between 1907 and 1916 Demant Hatt recorded
tales of magic animals, otherworldly girls who marry Sami men, and
cannibalistic ogres or Stallos. Many of her storytellers were
women, and the memorable tales included in this collection tell of
plucky girls and women who outfox their attackers (whether Russian
bandits, mysterious Dog-Turks, or Swedish farmers) and save their
people. Here as well are tales of ghosts and pestilent spirits,
murdered babies who come back to haunt their parents, and legends
in which the Sami are both persecuted by their enemies and cleverly
resistant. By the Fire, first published in Danish in 1922, features
Demant Hatt's original linoleum prints, incorporating and
transforming her visual memories of Sapmi in a style influenced by
the northern European Expressionists after World War I. With Demant
Hatt's field notes and commentary and translator Barbara Sjoholm's
Afterword (accompanied by photographs), this first English
publication of By the Fire is at once a significant contribution to
the canon of world literature, a unique glimpse into Sami culture,
and a testament to the enduring art of storytelling.
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