Description

Book Synopsis
A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and far beyond the community.

Trade Review
Frandy has made visible a goldmine of folklore that has been invisible to outsiders, and he introduces it in a deeply informed, nuanced context." - Krister Stoor, Umeå University

"A glimpse of a wide range of oral genres from a little-known Sámi group during the nineteenth century that will fascinate people interested in the folklore of the Sámi, Scandinavian studies, and the study of Indigenous communities." - John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley

"A work of intellectual and cultural repatriation that re-asserts SÁmi intellectual and cultural sovereignty within the field of global literature. . . . The text demonstrates how even texts and monuments taken hundreds of years ago in the name of nationalizing projects can be re-appropriated, re-signified, and ultimately returned to their communities." - Asymptote

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Storyteller Biographies
  • Glossary of Frequently Used SÁmi Terms
  • Index of Significant Place-Names
  • 1 Songs
  • Joik Songs
  • Cradle Song
  • Bear Song
  • Reindeer Song
  • Raven Song
  • The Tawny Owl
  • Whitefish Livđe
  • Trout
  • The Old Man
  • HÆÆnda-Maati Joik
  • Taavvad-Piera Joik
  • ListrÖm
  • Aila-Jussa
  • Ristnȧȧ-PiÄtȧr
  • Eerki-Piera
  • Other Songs
  • Stuorravuona (Isovuono) Market Song
  • The Girl's Song
  • This and That
  • VÄinÄmÖinen's Nephew
  • I Saw
  • Daughter and Mother Song
  • The FiancÉe's Beauty
  • 2 Animal Tales
  • The Fox's Tale
  • The Fox's Tale, Version 2
  • The Fox and the Fisherman
  • The Story of the Fox's Blindness
  • The Man and the Bear
  • The Bear and Fox's Wild Reindeer Hunt
  • The Mouse and the Cat
  • The Raven and the Fox
  • The Horse and the Wolf
  • The Fox and the Hare
  • The Wagtail and the Dipper
  • The Story of the Moose and the Bear
  • 3 Fairy Tales
  • The Poor Boy and the King's Daughter
  • The Great Lord's Son-in-Law
  • The Boy and the Golden Bird
  • Acorn Finding
  • Endless Discontent
  • The Reindeer Calf's Hooves
  • Mattias the Fearless and the Devil & Mattias the Fearless
  • The Man Who Lashed His Fortune
  • The Story of Three Girls
  • 4 Short Tales
  • The Resourceful Boy
  • The King and the Bank Thief
  • A Merchant
  • God's Miracles
  • MeniŠ-Antti's Life Story
  • The Poor Boy's Wedding Luck
  • 5 Humorous Stories and Anecdotes
  • The Noaidi Axe
  • The Travels of the Čuđit
  • The Wife's Stupidity
  • Shingle-Stick
  • The Story of the Girl's Spinning Rack
  • The Girl and Her Suitor
  • The Fool's Doorposts
  • Three Lazy People
  • Good Day—Axe Handle
  • It Is Truly True
  • The Butter Churn
  • The Wild Reindeer Hunters
  • 6 Belief Legends
  • Etiological Legends
  • Aaččan, Who Tarred the Moon
  • The StÁllu
  • The StÁllu, Version 1
  • The StÁllu, Version 2
  • The StÁllu, Version 3
  • The StÁllu, Version 4
  • The StÁllu, Version 5
  • Andras Pejvi
  • Gufihtarat
  • The Maker of Seven Churches
  • Gufihtar
  • Čahalig—Treasure Guardians
  • Čahalig
  • Čahalig, Version 2
  • Giants
  • A Giant Fights with Small Men
  • Two Giants
  • The Sieidi
  • The Sieidi Root Cluster
  • A Story about Äjjih Island
  • The Sieidi of Ij-jÄvri
  • Noaidi Tales
  • The Old Man Noaidi
  • Skolt SÁmi Noaiddit
  • The Noaidi Wife
  • The Moose Skiers
  • Two Jealous People
  • Shapeshifting Tales
  • The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law
  • The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law, Version 2
  • The Bear Daughter-in-Law
  • Ghost Hauntings
  • SÁrnoo kurr (Speaker's Gorge)
  • The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi
  • The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi, Version 2
  • The Pastor and the Sexton
  • 7 Historical and Regional Legends
  • SiggÁ's Legend
  • SiggÁ's Weeping Strait
  • The Cannibal Vuolliǯ of Ij-jÄvri
  • The Maiden Hannaaǯ's Decapitation Story
  • The Dead Constable
  • The Fight of the Constables
  • The Late Raassaǯ
  • PiÄjȧȧǯ
  • Famed Antt-PiÄttȧr's Eelliǯ, FiancÉ-Waiter
  • She Who Went to Sleep as a Maiden and Woke as a Wife
  • 8 Stories about Čuđit
  • Čuđit
  • The Čuđit on the Move
  • A Story from the Time of Čuđit
  • The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow
  • The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow, Version 2
  • The Death of the Čuđit
  • Futile Fear
  • The Disobedient Daughter
  • Laurukȧǯ
  • The Čuđit Fall into a Ravine
  • The Čuđit Drown in the Rapids
  • The Čuđit Die of Hunger
  • The Čuđit Drown in Lake Aanaar; Hundred Pine Island
  • Hundred Pine Island, Version 2
  • Laurukȧǯ Kills Čuđit with a Sword
  • 9 Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ
  • The Feats of Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ
  • About Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ's Father, Peeivih
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Burns a Sieidi
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Burns a Sieidi, Version 2
  • The Capstone
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ on the Sea Shore
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ on the Sea Shore, Version 2
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Fighting
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Fighting, Version 2
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Hunting Wild Reindeer
  • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ's Race with a Draught Reindeer
  • 10 Stories about the Skolts
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 2
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 3
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 4
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 5
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 6
  • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 7
  • KȧȧŠŠȧ
  • 11 Hunting Stories
  • The Late Haannuǯ's Bear and Wild Reindeer Hunt
  • A Draught Reindeer as a Wild Reindeer
  • The Bear Hunter
  • The Soddy Root Ball as a Bear
  • MeniŠ-Antti's Bear Hunting Stories
  • A Bear Story
  • The Bear Hunters
  • The Girls and the Bear
  • The Bear and the Women
  • The Squirrel Hunters
  • The Wild Reindeer Skiers
  • The Moose Hunters
  • Irjȧn-Ȧnnȧ ja Antti on a Fishing Excursion to LÁggujÄvri (LankojÄrvi)
  • The Ermine Hunters
  • 12 Personal Experience Narratives
  • The Life of One Aanaar SÁmi
  • An Aanaar Marriage and Life Story
  • Some Misfortune
  • The Old Man of Soađigil's (SodankylÄ) Forest Memories
  • The Autumnal Wild-Reindeer Hunt in Aanaar
  • Vuȧvnum (Vuongunta), or Hunting Wild-Reindeer in the Spring
  • Juoŋ stim (Juomustus) and Netting Under the Ice
  • 13 Proverbs and Figures of Speech
  • Proverbs
  • Sayings and Expressions
  • 14 Riddles
  • 15 Omens and Signs
  • Appendix A
  • North SÁmi Joiks
  • Juhan Vesta's Joik
  • MeniŠ-Irjan
  • Mihkkus-Āslak
  • Let us Leave
  • Pulju
  • Ninka-Ūla Kāre
  • Pike
  • Burbot
  • Perch
  • Stories
  • The Lazy One
  • Skolt SÁmi Story
  • Letters
  • Appendix B
  • Introduction to the 1978 Edition by Lea Laitinen
  • Introduction to the 1917 Edition by August V. Koskimies
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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        Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
        Publication Date: 6/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780299319045, 978-0299319045
        ISBN10: 0299319040
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date. Collected in the 1880s, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and far beyond the community.

        Trade Review
        Frandy has made visible a goldmine of folklore that has been invisible to outsiders, and he introduces it in a deeply informed, nuanced context." - Krister Stoor, Umeå University

        "A glimpse of a wide range of oral genres from a little-known Sámi group during the nineteenth century that will fascinate people interested in the folklore of the Sámi, Scandinavian studies, and the study of Indigenous communities." - John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley

        "A work of intellectual and cultural repatriation that re-asserts SÁmi intellectual and cultural sovereignty within the field of global literature. . . . The text demonstrates how even texts and monuments taken hundreds of years ago in the name of nationalizing projects can be re-appropriated, re-signified, and ultimately returned to their communities." - Asymptote

        Table of Contents
        • Preface
        • Acknowledgments
        • Introduction
        • Storyteller Biographies
        • Glossary of Frequently Used SÁmi Terms
        • Index of Significant Place-Names
        • 1 Songs
        • Joik Songs
        • Cradle Song
        • Bear Song
        • Reindeer Song
        • Raven Song
        • The Tawny Owl
        • Whitefish Livđe
        • Trout
        • The Old Man
        • HÆÆnda-Maati Joik
        • Taavvad-Piera Joik
        • ListrÖm
        • Aila-Jussa
        • Ristnȧȧ-PiÄtȧr
        • Eerki-Piera
        • Other Songs
        • Stuorravuona (Isovuono) Market Song
        • The Girl's Song
        • This and That
        • VÄinÄmÖinen's Nephew
        • I Saw
        • Daughter and Mother Song
        • The FiancÉe's Beauty
        • 2 Animal Tales
        • The Fox's Tale
        • The Fox's Tale, Version 2
        • The Fox and the Fisherman
        • The Story of the Fox's Blindness
        • The Man and the Bear
        • The Bear and Fox's Wild Reindeer Hunt
        • The Mouse and the Cat
        • The Raven and the Fox
        • The Horse and the Wolf
        • The Fox and the Hare
        • The Wagtail and the Dipper
        • The Story of the Moose and the Bear
        • 3 Fairy Tales
        • The Poor Boy and the King's Daughter
        • The Great Lord's Son-in-Law
        • The Boy and the Golden Bird
        • Acorn Finding
        • Endless Discontent
        • The Reindeer Calf's Hooves
        • Mattias the Fearless and the Devil & Mattias the Fearless
        • The Man Who Lashed His Fortune
        • The Story of Three Girls
        • 4 Short Tales
        • The Resourceful Boy
        • The King and the Bank Thief
        • A Merchant
        • God's Miracles
        • MeniŠ-Antti's Life Story
        • The Poor Boy's Wedding Luck
        • 5 Humorous Stories and Anecdotes
        • The Noaidi Axe
        • The Travels of the Čuđit
        • The Wife's Stupidity
        • Shingle-Stick
        • The Story of the Girl's Spinning Rack
        • The Girl and Her Suitor
        • The Fool's Doorposts
        • Three Lazy People
        • Good Day—Axe Handle
        • It Is Truly True
        • The Butter Churn
        • The Wild Reindeer Hunters
        • 6 Belief Legends
        • Etiological Legends
        • Aaččan, Who Tarred the Moon
        • The StÁllu
        • The StÁllu, Version 1
        • The StÁllu, Version 2
        • The StÁllu, Version 3
        • The StÁllu, Version 4
        • The StÁllu, Version 5
        • Andras Pejvi
        • Gufihtarat
        • The Maker of Seven Churches
        • Gufihtar
        • Čahalig—Treasure Guardians
        • Čahalig
        • Čahalig, Version 2
        • Giants
        • A Giant Fights with Small Men
        • Two Giants
        • The Sieidi
        • The Sieidi Root Cluster
        • A Story about Äjjih Island
        • The Sieidi of Ij-jÄvri
        • Noaidi Tales
        • The Old Man Noaidi
        • Skolt SÁmi Noaiddit
        • The Noaidi Wife
        • The Moose Skiers
        • Two Jealous People
        • Shapeshifting Tales
        • The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law
        • The Whitefish Daughter-in-Law, Version 2
        • The Bear Daughter-in-Law
        • Ghost Hauntings
        • SÁrnoo kurr (Speaker's Gorge)
        • The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi
        • The Haunting of the Old Deceased Noaidi, Version 2
        • The Pastor and the Sexton
        • 7 Historical and Regional Legends
        • SiggÁ's Legend
        • SiggÁ's Weeping Strait
        • The Cannibal Vuolliǯ of Ij-jÄvri
        • The Maiden Hannaaǯ's Decapitation Story
        • The Dead Constable
        • The Fight of the Constables
        • The Late Raassaǯ
        • PiÄjȧȧǯ
        • Famed Antt-PiÄttȧr's Eelliǯ, FiancÉ-Waiter
        • She Who Went to Sleep as a Maiden and Woke as a Wife
        • 8 Stories about Čuđit
        • Čuđit
        • The Čuđit on the Move
        • A Story from the Time of Čuđit
        • The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow
        • The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow, Version 2
        • The Death of the Čuđit
        • Futile Fear
        • The Disobedient Daughter
        • Laurukȧǯ
        • The Čuđit Fall into a Ravine
        • The Čuđit Drown in the Rapids
        • The Čuđit Die of Hunger
        • The Čuđit Drown in Lake Aanaar; Hundred Pine Island
        • Hundred Pine Island, Version 2
        • Laurukȧǯ Kills Čuđit with a Sword
        • 9 Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ
        • The Feats of Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ
        • About Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ's Father, Peeivih
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Burns a Sieidi
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Burns a Sieidi, Version 2
        • The Capstone
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ on the Sea Shore
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ on the Sea Shore, Version 2
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Fighting
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Fighting, Version 2
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ Hunting Wild Reindeer
        • Peeivih-Vuȧlȧppȧǯ's Race with a Draught Reindeer
        • 10 Stories about the Skolts
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 2
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 3
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 4
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 5
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 6
        • Scaring the Skolt Wife, Version 7
        • KȧȧŠŠȧ
        • 11 Hunting Stories
        • The Late Haannuǯ's Bear and Wild Reindeer Hunt
        • A Draught Reindeer as a Wild Reindeer
        • The Bear Hunter
        • The Soddy Root Ball as a Bear
        • MeniŠ-Antti's Bear Hunting Stories
        • A Bear Story
        • The Bear Hunters
        • The Girls and the Bear
        • The Bear and the Women
        • The Squirrel Hunters
        • The Wild Reindeer Skiers
        • The Moose Hunters
        • Irjȧn-Ȧnnȧ ja Antti on a Fishing Excursion to LÁggujÄvri (LankojÄrvi)
        • The Ermine Hunters
        • 12 Personal Experience Narratives
        • The Life of One Aanaar SÁmi
        • An Aanaar Marriage and Life Story
        • Some Misfortune
        • The Old Man of Soađigil's (SodankylÄ) Forest Memories
        • The Autumnal Wild-Reindeer Hunt in Aanaar
        • Vuȧvnum (Vuongunta), or Hunting Wild-Reindeer in the Spring
        • Juoŋ stim (Juomustus) and Netting Under the Ice
        • 13 Proverbs and Figures of Speech
        • Proverbs
        • Sayings and Expressions
        • 14 Riddles
        • 15 Omens and Signs
        • Appendix A
        • North SÁmi Joiks
        • Juhan Vesta's Joik
        • MeniŠ-Irjan
        • Mihkkus-Āslak
        • Let us Leave
        • Pulju
        • Ninka-Ūla Kāre
        • Pike
        • Burbot
        • Perch
        • Stories
        • The Lazy One
        • Skolt SÁmi Story
        • Letters
        • Appendix B
        • Introduction to the 1978 Edition by Lea Laitinen
        • Introduction to the 1917 Edition by August V. Koskimies
        • Notes
        • Bibliography
        • Index

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