By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends

by Emilie Demant Hatt

Book Overview

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)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517904587
• ISBN13: 9781517904586
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.0"