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Matthew Driscoll & Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (eds.), 66 håndskrifter fra Arne Magnussons samling, København & Reykjavík: Den Arnamagnæanske Samling
No full textReview of: Matthew Driscoll & Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir (eds.), 66 håndskrifter fra Arne Magnussons samling, København & Reykjavík: Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Nordisk forskningsinstitut, Københavns universitet; Árni Magnússon-instituttet for islandske studier; Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns universitet 2015, ISBN 978-87-635-4166-4, 237 pp
The Sami Representations Reflecting the Multi-Ethnic North of the Saga Literature
Get PDFThis article focuses on contextualizing the Sami (finnar) representations in Old Norse saga literature. The purpose is to show that the Sami representations reflect multi-layered Old Norse textual and oral traditions, and complex interaction between the Sami and the Norwegians in the Middle Ages. The stereotypes of the Sami tell us more about the society that created them than about real, historical events. We can be sure that behind them lie very mundane phenomena such as trade and marriages.
The ultimate goal of the article is therefore to reveal the multi-ethnic North that provided the background for the saga sources, a North whose history is not as homogeneous as sources suggest and quite unlike the modified version which found its way into the histories of nation states. The literary conventions of sagas are not just imaginary tales—their use in various contexts can reveal something essential in otherwise schematic images or configurations. Even researchers of the sagas have certain personal conceptions of what the “real” lives of the Sami were like at the time, and how the sagas depict this. In fact, they participate in a continuum of saga literature that generates representations of the Sami in history.
 
Harald Thuen, Den norske skolen. Utdanningssystemets historie, Oslo: Abstrakt forlag 2017, ISBN 978-82-7935-389-8, 283 p.
No full text"The Soul Should Have Been Brought along": The Settlement of Skolt Sami to Inari in 1945–1949
Get PDFIn the autumn of 1944, five hundred Skolt Sami were forced to leave their home region in the Pechenga (Petsamo) area together with other inhabitants. After the war, their fate was discussed by Finnish officials and in the media. The question was whether they should be returned to the Soviet Union or relocated to Finland. This article describes the five-year-long process to relocate the Skolt Sami to the Inari region. Following a recommendation by Håkan Rydving to focus studies on Sami agency, in addition to non-Sami actors whose role is usually emphasised, the aim of this article is to identify key actors who made crucial choices in the relocation process. In addition to the Finnish “Skolt friend” Karl Nickul, the Skolt Sami meetings and Jaakko Sverloff, the trustee of the Skolts, appear to have had important roles in key decisions, for example regarding the expansion of the Skolt area from Nellim to Sevettijärvi, the role of the winter village and the choice of settlements along the waterways
Birgit Eaker, Birgitta Hedbäck, Lennart Larsson, Pär Nilsson & Christina Persson† (eds.), Ord och gärning. Festskrift till Anki Mattisson 31 augusti 2015, Stockholm: Svenska Akademien 2015, ISBN 978-91- 85333-65-3, 205 pp.
No full textVocational Education and Industrial Relations: Sweden 1910–1975
Get PDFIn this article we discuss vocational education in Sweden against the backdrop of the changing nature of industrial relations in the period from ca 1910 to 1975. Drawing upon evidence from official inquiries and case studies of two industries (forest industry and shipbuilding), we show that Sweden in the 1940s and 1950s can be described as a collective skill formation system in the making, where firms, intermediary associations, and the state cooperated around vocational education and training. However, Sweden developed in a very different direction than similar countries. We argue that this remarkable change of trajectory cannot be understood without considering the simultaneous disintegration of the model of industrial relations, along with general changes in the system of education
What Do Place-Names Tell about non-Human Beings among Canadian Inuit?
Get PDFTypologies have been proposed to organise Inuit placenames in several categories based on the meaning of and glosses on the names. One possible category gathers those toponyms that are related to beings that are neither human nor animal (“other-than-animal non-human beings”). In Nunavut and Nunavik (Canadian Eastern Arctic), this category is used quantitatively to name an almost insignificant number of sites. On the other hand, however, such particular place-names are to be found all over the lands inhabited by Inuit, witnessing the “other” nature of this space by comparison to the space commonly frequented by people and animals
Bertil Marklund, Det milsvida skogsfolket. Skogssamernas samhälle i omvandling 1650–1800 (Skrifter från Centrum för samiska studier 23; Kulturens frontlinjer 58), Umeå: Umeå University 2015, ISBN 978-91-7601-235-2, 448 pp.
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