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Join us on an engaging and delightful tour of Nordic culture, through traditional music, art, history, and language.
You’ll be inspired by the stories of fascinating people who have done great things, but are otherwise just like you and me.
We’ll also stretch your imagination with Nordic folktales, reflecting on how they speak to the common humanity in all of us.
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Friday Jul 09, 2021
Friday Jul 09, 2021
The Sami, formerly called Lapps, live in the far north of Norway, Sweden, and Finland in a land where the sun never sets. Storytelling has a strong tradition among the Sami, with tales that are a little different from other Nordic folktales. Join us as we read story translations from the first collectors, J. A. Friis and J. K. Qvigstad, and from ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt. We read from the 2019 translation of Demant Hatt's "By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends" (translated by Barbara Sjoholm).
We also hear Nick Ericson of The Six Feet Back Band playing "The Dwight Lamb Polka" on his button accordion.
Join us for the unusual stories about reindeer, sheep, Stallo the troll, and a shaman!
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