To the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia, the lights are associated with the spirits of the dead. Now, however, we have a better idea of their true origin. We’ve only had a scientific ...

Travelling through the forests of northern Scandinavia, one can often encounter characteristic X marks carved into trees. However, these are not ordinary symbols, as it is immediately apparent that ...

Winters in Scandinavia can last for 5 months- with ... Sápmi- the ancestral territory of the indigenous Sami people For Margret Fjellstrom and Daniel Viklund, friluftsliv is not a past-time ...

Sami studies focuses on the Sami people, their languages, culture and history, from the perspective of several disciplines. The Sami languages are examined particularly within the framework of ...