The History of Lapland Wherein Are Shewed the Original, Manners, Habits, Marriages, Conjurations, &c. of That People

Having run thro the mens emploiments, the womens are next to be considered. Two trades are most peculiar to them, as doing the work of Taylors and Shoomakers, for they make and...

Now there are two things required to fit the drum for use, an Index and a Hammer, that shews among the pictures the thing they enquire after, with this they beat the drum. The I...

_So shall we quickly end our pleasing pain: Behold my Mistresse there, With decent motion walking ore the Plain._ Kulnasatz _my Rain-deer; Look yonder, where She washes in the L...

But tho they usually make them in this shape, yet there are some, especially in _Lapponia Tornensis_, who worship a meer stump. They have no Image of the Sun, either because he...

_Olaus Magnus_ makes them put in Baskets, as his words afore quoted do intimate, and those Baskets too to be tied at their backs, and the Picture he makes of them represents not...

But now let us come to the garments they do not so ordinarily wear, but only on some occasions, which both for the men and women are made alike, and all of leather, to secure th...

Notwithstanding, that custom of removing their sheds from one place to another was quite abolished, but is yet used among them, tho now they move not out of the bounds assigned...

And this is my opinion of their originall and migrations, out of which I shall not be perswaded by those learned men who believe they rather came from the _Tartars_, for we neve...

We come now to their secular affairs, which are either public or private: we will treat first of the public, to which belong the form and constitution of their Government. This...

First of all, their business is to find out where the Bear makes his den against Winter. He that finds it is said _hafwa ringet bioern_, i.e. to encompass the Bear. He usually a...

That we may not yet leave the Public concerns of the _Laplanders_, of which we have treated, let us proceed in the next place to consider their Fairs and common Markets, in whic...

But besides these, there are others, such as are the _Sables_ which _Olaus Magnus_ calls _Zabelli_, their skins _Johnston_ in his History of Animals commends. _Olaus_ saith that...

By the present State of Religion in _Lapland_, it cannot be doubted but all possible means were used by their pious Kings and Priests, for the extirpating of superstition and it...

We come now to the habits of their mind, in which ’tis first observable that they are much given to superstition, which is no wonder while they live in Woods among wild Beasts,...

After our discourse of the inhabitants of _Lapland_, their Nature and manners, something is to be said of other things there remarkable. First of their Cattel, of which they hav...

_The Reader may please to take notice, that the diligent and learned Author of this History, (to the writing of which he was commanded, and therein assisted by the Chancellor of...

But this was more effectually don in the succeeding times of _Charles Gustavus Adolphus_, and _Christina_; who first endowed Schools and Churches; those two firm supports, witho...

We have seen how _Lapland_ is situate; let us next proceed to other particularities of it. That ’tis very near the Pole appears from its latitude, insomuch that for some months...

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The 2^d Silver mine is in _Luhla-Lapmark_ named _Kiedlkievasi_ found by _Jonan Petri_ living in _Torpenjaur_ about the 60. year of this age. It is in the middle of the Village _...