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The most comprehensive collection of Sámi folktales ever translated into English
From the vast region of Northern Sápmi comes Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds, the most extensive compilation of Sámi narratives recorded from Sámi storytellers ever published in English translation. Comprising more than 300 folktales and legends from Northern Norway, including many from the coastal Sámi and the Skolt Sámi of Eastern Finnmark, this volume illuminates an oral storytelling tradition and shares narratives told by fishers, farmers, reindeer herders, lay preachers, and teachers from the interior plateaus and valleys to the Arctic fjords.
Originally recorded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Norwegian philologist Just Knud Qvigstad and the Sámi politician and folklorist Isak Saba, this collection spans centuries of storytelling in multiple genres, from migratory fairytales with kings and princesses to legends of ghosts and the Devil to fables with talking animals. A young lad from a poor family embarks on a quest through the wilderness to find treasure, receiving help from a wise female elder along his path. A Sámi boy falls in love with a háldi girl from another world, and they find a way to marry. A man carries sickness out of a village and stops the plague from spreading. Cunning foxes outsmart bears and humans alike. The villainous Chudes are tricked, foiled in their plans to steal from and kill the Sámi. People are turned into wolves, able to turn back only if they don't taste the blood of a reindeer or if they are given cooked food. The ogre Stállu appears again and again, terrorizing the community until he's outwitted or subdued. Rávgas, undead creatures of the sea, drag themselves out of the depths to lure others to their demise.
With historical context that reveals the cultural resilience of the Sámi people, Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds honors these traditional narratives, often overlooked in other folktale anthologies from the Nordic countries. Translator Barbara Sjoholm's insightful introduction describes Qvigstad's and Saba's backgrounds and their work in gathering and translating these essential texts, and she introduces Sámi storytellers Johan Aikio, Efraim Pedersen, and Elen Utsi, who contributed dozens of stories.
An unprecedented trove of Sámi narratives, this expansive collection brings most of these tales to English readers for the first time, marking a major contribution to Indigenous folk literature and enhancing a broader understanding of Sámi and Nordic cultures.
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The most comprehensive collection of Sámi folktales ever translated into English
From the vast region of Northern Sápmi comes Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds, the most extensive compilation of Sámi narratives recorded from Sámi storytellers ever published in English translation. Comprising more than 300 folktales and legends from Northern Norway, including many from the coastal Sámi and the Skolt Sámi of Eastern Finnmark, this volume illuminates an oral storytelling tradition and shares narratives told by fishers, farmers, reindeer herders, lay preachers, and teachers from the interior plateaus and valleys to the Arctic fjords.
Originally recorded in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the Norwegian philologist Just Knud Qvigstad and the Sámi politician and folklorist Isak Saba, this collection spans centuries of storytelling in multiple genres, from migratory fairytales with kings and princesses to legends of ghosts and the Devil to fables with talking animals. A young lad from a poor family embarks on a quest through the wilderness to find treasure, receiving help from a wise female elder along his path. A Sámi boy falls in love with a háldi girl from another world, and they find a way to marry. A man carries sickness out of a village and stops the plague from spreading. Cunning foxes outsmart bears and humans alike. The villainous Chudes are tricked, foiled in their plans to steal from and kill the Sámi. People are turned into wolves, able to turn back only if they don't taste the blood of a reindeer or if they are given cooked food. The ogre Stállu appears again and again, terrorizing the community until he's outwitted or subdued. Rávgas, undead creatures of the sea, drag themselves out of the depths to lure others to their demise.
With historical context that reveals the cultural resilience of the Sámi people, Sámi Folktales from the Near and Far Worlds honors these traditional narratives, often overlooked in other folktale anthologies from the Nordic countries. Translator Barbara Sjoholm's insightful introduction describes Qvigstad's and Saba's backgrounds and their work in gathering and translating these essential texts, and she introduces Sámi storytellers Johan Aikio, Efraim Pedersen, and Elen Utsi, who contributed dozens of stories.
An unprecedented trove of Sámi narratives, this expansive collection brings most of these tales to English readers for the first time, marking a major contribution to Indigenous folk literature and enhancing a broader understanding of Sámi and Nordic cultures.
Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
Just Knud Qvigstad (1853–1957) was a Norwegian philologist, linguist, and ethnographer. He wrote and published extensively on the Sámi people of Northern Scandinavia, and his substantial collection of Sámi folktales resulted in the publication of Lappiske eventyr og sagn, presented in four volumes from 1927 to 1929.
Isak Saba (1875–1921) was a Sámi teacher, politician, and folklorist who collected and translated folktales from Eastern Finnmark, including material from the Skolt Sámi. Saba's tales were published in Lappiske eventyr og sagn after his death.
Barbara Sjoholm is an award-winning translator. She is author of many books, including From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture and The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi, and she translated By the Fire: Sámi Folktales and Legends, collected by Emilie Demant Hatt, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Contents
Introduction by Barbara Sjoholm
Translator's Note
The Far World
Journey to the Bread Mountain
Journey to the Silver Mountain
A Poor Lad Seeks Work and Becomes Rich
Soria Moria Castle
The Ship Captain and the Pagan King
The Mouse in the Box
Seven with One Blow
Lavde-Dánel
Ánde Buhara
Spruce Twister and Steel Squeezer
What the Lad Imagines, Happens
The Sister Who Deceived Her Brother
Sisseløna
The Lad and the Fox Free the King's Son
The Girl Who Jumped in the Sea
The Golden Duck
Gunnâfiruš
The Lad Who Fled with the Troll Woman's Daughter and Became the King's Son-in-Law
The Poor Man Who Wanted to Christen His Child
Olšlubbo the Strong
The Boy and the Horse Flee the Troll
The Man Who Saved the King's Daughters from the Trolls
The Swineherd
The Lad Who Stole a Troll's Hat, a Bird, and a Horse and Married the Princess
Biehttár Boccomanni
Biehttár Boccomanni Courts the King's Daughter
The King's Daughter and the Robbers
The Fisher Lad and the Mermaid
The Boy Who Was Promised to the Mermaid
The Sea King and the Land King
The Brothers Who Wanted to Find Themselves Sweethearts
The Shape-Shifting Wolf
The Three Princes and the Three Flying Princesses
The King's Son in the Shape of a Troll
The Gilded Castle
Land of Youth
The Wolf with Hairless Paws
The Merchant's Son, the Cat, the Dog, and the King's Daughter
The Two Brothers, the King's Daughters, and Riddereavva
The Clever Mason and the Silver Billy Goat
The Near World
The Dead Lover Who Led a Bride to the Other World
The Birches on the Graves of Two Who Had Loved Each Other
You Threw Me Out Yesterday, and I'm Throwing You Out Today
The Lazy, Dirty Girl
Idjajár Vulles
Treasure Hunters
The Man Who Bought an Itch
The Stupid Wife
The Man Who Married with a Plan to Keep His Wife Childless
The Bear and the Skolt Woman Who Fished
The Werewolf Is Given Dried Jerky
The Black Death
Smallpox Is Overpowered
The Plague
The Magic Iron
The Robbers in Trollvik
The Murder on Varto
Ánddá Vulle Kills His Enemy
The Murderers in Aklavik
Gáppes Ánte
Animals
The Human Soul as a Blowfly
The Man and the Bear
The Bear Shows the Lion a Human Being
The Fox and the Bear
The Fox Frightens the Bear and the Lion
The Fox Frightens the Wild Animals
The Fox and the Goat Kids
The Size of the Eyes Matters Less Than the Amount of Courage
The Fox Is a Portent of Death
The Dog's Wages
The Dog Who Saved Folk from the Plague
How Lice Were Created
The Boy and the Louse
The Frog Mother
Animals Have Ancestral Mothers
How the Wild Reindeer Was Created
Why the Hazel Grouse Is So Small
How the Wolf Was Created
Why the Loon's Feet Are Set So Far Back
The Virgin Mary Travels to Visit Elisabeth
The Salmon and the Coalfish
The Old Salmon Gives Advice to the Young Salmon
How a Spider Saved a Man's Life
Barbmoriket
The Snake
The Guodden
The Giant Bird
Enemies
The Chudes in Notozero
The Pathfinder Goes over Einavadde
The Chudes and the Pathfinder
The Chudes Are Fooled
The Brothers at Tunes
The Chudes Starve or Drown
Vuollát Máhtte and the Russians
The Russians Are Outwitted
The Fork
Bragging Gets Punished
The Chudes Are Defeated by a Loon's Beak
Thunder and the Chudes
The Man and the Russian Chudes
Lávrukaš and the Russian Chudes
Lávrukaš
The Sámi Hide Underground
Two Sisters and the Chudes
The Son of Skogerøya-Ivar
The Russian Chudes
Noaidis and Noaidi Skills
The Boy Who Married His Mother
Two Mountain Sámi in Olden Days
The Kettle Boils Without Fire
Two Wild Reindeer Hunters
The Thieves' Profit
A Jekt Is Joiked Home from Bergen
In the Past, the Skolt Sámi Could Turn Themselves into Animals
Stuorra-Gánda
The Wild Reindeer on Akkoberget
Rikkis Piera
People as Wolves
An Eater-Noaidi
Noaidi Láinit
To Make a Stállu with Noaidi Skills
Hánno Ándarus
Káre Ovllá
Noaidi Kolpa
Jákko Pontius
Jákko Pontius Understands the Language of Birds
Vuollá Jovnna
Noaidi Náhkkul
Noaidi Guhtor
Noaidi Linke-Oallá
Noaidi Johan Kåven
The Battle of the Noaidis
The Noaidis Duel
They Still Practice Noaidi Skills in Karelia
The Man Who Stole a Skolt Noaidi's Money
How Pieraš Ánde Learned Noaidi Skills
An Eater-Noaidi Must Be Buried
The Church and the Devil
The Pastor in the Barrel
The Poor Man and the Stingy and Immoral Pastor
The Hungry Pastor and the Sexton
The Visit to the Other World
The Pastor Raises a Storm Against the Enemy
The Pastor, the Sexton, and the Dead
A Judgment from God
The Holy Riffan
Beaivvi-Vuolát Destroys the Sieidi
The Sacrifice Stone
The Devil in the Guise of Duommás Piera
The Man Who Ferried the Devil over the River
The Devil Flays a Wicked Man
The Lad Who Was the Fire Stoker for the Devil
Two Brothers Go Trading
Kári
Even the Devil Can't Hold Out Against an Unkind Woman
The False Coins and the Day Laborer
The Man Who Had Promised Himself to the Devil
The Servant Lad, the Devil, and Bishop Mattias Kastrim
The Drunken Cobbler
Stállus
The Boy and the Stállu
Stállu on the Island
The Christmas Stállus
Stállu Is Set on Folk
Válbure-Sárrá and Stállu
Stállu Steals a Girl
Stállu Is Tricked by a Girl
Stállu Looks for a Companion
Stállu Goes Courting
Stállu and Ruobba
Budulávra
Beavvá
Stállu as a Cannibal
A Man Is Killed by Stállu
Stállu and the Mountain Sámi
Stállu and the Troll
Rievssot
Riimmagállis
Beaivvi Ándarus and the Merchant
Stállu and Luhtatáhkku
Old Stállu and His Wife
Stállu and Luhtatáhkku Are Killed
Hidden Folk
How the Neiden Skolt Sámi Became Few and Poor
The Chakkalaggas
Catching a Chakkalagga
Háldis as Neighbors
Háldis Are Generous with Livestock
A Govette Borrows Tobacco
Háldis Warn the Neighbor Woman of Danger in the Barn
Háldis Ask for the Barn to Be Moved
Háldis in Gåsedalen
Háldis in Frakkfjord
Háldi Cow
The Lad and the Háldi Girl
The Man and the Háldi Girl
Čoavva and the Govette Girls
Anna and the Govettes
The Underground People
Marriage to a Háldi Girl
A Háldi Girl as a Bride
Riches Follow the Ulda Bride
Two Sámi Lads Become Herders for a Háldi Man and Marry His Daughters
A Háldi Wants Reindeer Herders
The Lad Who Had Been with the Háldis and a Háldi Girl
A Háldi Lad Is Baptized and Married to a Girl
Marriage with a Háldi Girl
Háldis Give Their Son-in-Law Another Chance
A Háldi Girl Is with a Lad at Night
A Háldi Woman Vanishes
Meeting with the Háldis
Háldis Take a Baby from a Mother's Womb
The Lad Who Remained with the Háldis
Midwife to the Háldis
A Girl in Service to a Háldi Woman
Háldis Show the Way
The Hidden Children of Adam
Uldas Offer Comfort
Two Fishermen Come to a Háldi Farm
The Two Fishermen and the Háldis
Háldis Go Fishing in Finnmark
Three Fishermen
The Man Who Remained with the Sea Háldis
Fishing with the Sea Háldis
Sea Háldis in Bergen
The Sea Háldi and the Fisherman
A Battle Between Háldis and Rávgas
Creatures from the Sea
The Boy on a Fishhook
Stiika-Piera
Huvvá Hanno
Otters and Sea Háldis
A Sea Troll Stops the Boat
A Sea Troll Is Set on a Man
The Diver and the Sea Troll
A Sea Troll Tries to Abduct a Girl
A Sea Troll Halts Fishing on Holy Days
Knife in a Man Rávga
Death's Sailor
The Rávga Wants His Cap Back
A Rávga
The Rávga in the Cowshed
The Rávga Warns of Shipwreck
North Wind and Drizzle
Meeting with a Rávga Boat
A Battle Between Rávgas and the Dead
A Battle with a Rávga
The Rávga Cries Out
A Short Tale About a Rávga
The Rávgas Ask for a Room for the Night
The Rávga Takes Revenge
The Rávgas on Moholmen
Meeting with a Sea Corpse
Omens and Hauntings
Omen of Death
The Porpoise Is a Portent of Death
Reindeer Signal Death
The Man Is Afraid of Stállu Coming
Harbingers of Illness
Warning in the Countryside
The Cuckoo and the Two Women Cutting Angelica
The Halibut Portends a Shipwreck
The Fiery Horse in the Dark
The Ghosts Who Hunted the Woodcutter
The Ghost in the Barn
The Grouse Hunter's Vision
The Otter Hunters Are Scared Off
Those Who Lie in Wait for Furbearers Often See Ghosts
Shouting in the Forest
The Sheriff Is Frightened
Green Flame on the Sea
At Sea You Often Hear a Bit of Everything
An Apparition
The Invisible Often Live in Goahtis in the Wilderness
When Elle-Biera Hánsa Was Frightened
Children See Something Strange
Roiguš
The Wilderness Requires Quiet
A Strange Man Driving a Sled in the Countryside
A Beggar Woman Is Abducted by Ghosts
A Marvelous Reindeer
Meeting with a Revenant
Conversation with a Dead Woman
An Old Woman Walks...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Romane & Erzählungen |
| Rubrik: | Belletristik |
| Medium: | Buch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - fest (Hardcover) |
| ISBN-13: | 9781517916749 |
| ISBN-10: | 1517916747 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Gebunden |
| Autor: |
Qvigstad, Just Knud
Saba, Isak |
| Übersetzung: | Sjoholm, Barbara |
| Hersteller: |
MNG University Presses
University of Minnesota Press |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Abbildungen: | 24 b&w illustrations |
| Maße: | 214 x 156 x 45 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Just Knud Qvigstad (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 31.07.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,814 kg |
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