By the Fire

Available from Scandinavian Specialties when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Translated by Barbara Sjoholm The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century The se stories, collected by the Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt (1873–1958) during her travels in the early twentieth century among the nomadic Sami in Swedish Sápmi, grant entry to a fascinating world of wonder and peril, of nature imbued with spirits, and strangers to be outwitted with gumption and craft. This first English p