Inari Sámi Folklore
Stories from Aanaar

August V. Koskimies (Author), Toivo I. Itkonen (Author), Lea Laitinen (Edited by), Tim Frandy (Translated by)

9780299319045

Paperback / softback, published 2 June 2020

304 pages, 2 maps, 8 black & white photos
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.415 kg

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

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 by August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen in the 1880s from nearly two dozen storytellers from the arctic Aanaar (Inari) region of northeast Finland, the material reveals a complex web of social relations that existed both inside and far beyond the community.

First published in 1918 only in the Aanaar Sámi language and in Finnish, this anthology is now available in a centennial English-language edition for a global readership. Translator Tim Frandy has added biographies of the storytellers, maps and period photos, annotations, and a glossary. In headnotes that contextualize the stories, he explains such underlying themes as Aanaar conflicts with neighboring Sámi and Finnish communities, the collapse of the wild reindeer populations less than a century before, and the pre-Christian past in Aanaar. He introduces us to the bawdy humor of Antti Kitti, the didacticism of Iisakki Mannermaa, and the feminist leanings of Juho Petteri Lusmaniemi, emphasizing that folktales and proverbs are rooted in the experiences of individuals who are links in a living tradition.

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Storyteller Biographies
• Glossary of Frequently Used SÁ
  mi Terms
• Index of Significant Place-Names
• 1 Songs
• Joik Songs
• Cradle Song
• Bear Song
• Reindeer Song
• Raven Song
• The Tawny Owl
• Whitefish Livđ
  e
• Trout
• The Old Man
• HÆ
  Æ
  nda-Maati Joik
• Taavvad-Piera Joik
• ListrÖ
  m
• Aila-Jussa
• Ristnȧ
  ȧ
  -PiÄ
  tȧ
  r
• Eerki-Piera
• Other Songs
• Stuorravuona (Isovuono) Market Song
• The Girl'
  s Song
• This and That
• VÄ
  inÄ
  mÖ
  inen'
  s Nephew
• I Saw
• Daughter and Mother Song
• The FiancÉ
  e'
  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 Č
  uđ
  it
• 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
• Aač
  č
  an, Who Tarred the Moon
• The StÁ
  llu
• The StÁ
  llu, Version 1
• The StÁ
  llu, Version 2
• The StÁ
  llu, Version 3
• The StÁ
  llu, Version 4
• The StÁ
  llu, Version 5
• Andras Pejvi
• Gufihtarat
• The Maker of Seven Churches
• Gufihtar
• Č
  ahalig—
  Treasure Guardians
• Č
  ahalig
• Č
  ahalig, Version 2
• Giants
• A Giant Fights with Small Men
• Two Giants
• The Sieidi
• The Sieidi Root Cluster
• A Story about Ä
  jjih Island
• The Sieidi of Ij-jÄ
  vri
• Noaidi Tales
• The Old Man Noaidi
• Skolt SÁ
  mi 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
• SÁ
  rnoo kurrÂ
  (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-jÄ
  vri
• The Maiden Hannaaǯ
  '
  s Decapitation Story
• The Dead Constable
• The Fight of the Constables
• The Late Raassaǯ
  
• PiÄ
  jȧ
  ȧ
  ǯ
  
• Famed Antt-PiÄ
  ttȧ
  r'
  s Eelliǯ
  , FiancÉ
  -Waiter
• She Who Went to Sleep as a Maiden and Woke as a Wife
• 8 Stories about Č
  uđ
  it
• Č
  uđ
  it
• The Č
  uđ
  it on the Move
• A Story from the Time of Č
  uđ
  it
• The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow
• The Boy Who Hunted with a Bow, Version 2
• The Death of the Č
  uđ
  it
• Futile Fear
• The Disobedient Daughter
• Laurukȧ
  ǯ
  
• The Č
  uđ
  it Fall into a Ravine
• The Č
  uđ
  it Drown in the Rapids
• The Č
  uđ
  it Die of Hunger
• The Č
  uđ
  it Drown in Lake Aanaar
  Hundred Pine Island
• Hundred Pine Island, Version 2
• Laurukȧ
  ǯ
  Kills Č
  uđ
  it with a Sword
• 9 Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  
• The Feats of Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  
• About Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  '
  s Father, Peeivih
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  Burns a Sieidi
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  Burns a Sieidi, Version 2
• The Capstone
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  on the Sea Shore
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  on the Sea Shore, Version 2
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  Fighting
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  Fighting, Version 2
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  Hunting Wild Reindeer
• Peeivih-Vuȧ
  lȧ
  ppȧ
  ǯ
  '
  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
• Kȧ
  ȧ
  Š
  Š
  ȧ
  
• 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
• Irjȧ
  n-Ȧ
  nnȧ
  ja Antti on a Fishing Excursion to LÁ
  ggujÄ
  vri (LankojÄ
  rvi)
• The Ermine Hunters
• 12 Personal Experience Narratives
• The Life of One Aanaar SÁ
  mi
• An Aanaar Marriage and Life Story
• Some Misfortune
• The Old Man of Soađ
  igil'
  s (SodankylÄ
  ) Forest Memories
• The Autumnal Wild-Reindeer Hunt in Aanaar
• Vuȧ
  vnum (Vuongunta), or Hunting Wild-Reindeer in the Spring
• Juoŋ
  Â
  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 SÁ
  mi Joiks
• Juhan Vesta'
  s Joik
• MeniŠ
  -Irjan
• Mihkkus-Ā
  slak
• Let us Leave
• Pulju
• Ninka-Ū
  la Kā
  re
• Pike
• Burbot
• Perch
• Stories
• The Lazy One
• Skolt SÁ
  mi Story
• Letters
• Appendix B
• Introduction to the 1978 Edition by Lea Laitinen
• Introduction to the 1917 Edition by August V. Koskimies
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index