By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends

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 twent...