Barbara Sjoholm is a writer and translator of Danish and Norwegian literature. Her translations include By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends (Minnesota, 2019), and she is author of Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer and From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture (Minnesota, 2022). She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

Contents

Author’s Note xi

I. Early Winter

1. The Blue Hour 3

2. The Architecture of Snow and Ice 21

3. The Palace of the Snow Queen 41

4. How the Wild Reindeer Was Tamed 59

5. Traveling in the Dark 73

6. On the Finnmark Plateau 97

7. Santa’s Post Office 121

8. Brazilians at the Ice Cinema 135

9. Postcards from Lapland 155

II. Mid Winter

10. Macbeth on Ice 177

11. Iron Mountain 193

12. A Day at the Races 215

13. Winter Market 235

III. Late Winter

14. Untouched Lapland 257

15. “As Long As We Have Waters” 277

16. The Architecture of Melting Ice 295

Afterword 313

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