Old Icelandic and Sami Ancestor Mountains: A Comparison
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Heide, E. (2022). Old Icelandic and Sami ancestor mountains: A comparison. I H. Rydving & K. Kaikkonen (Red.), Religions around the arctic: Source criticism and comparisons (s. 31–76). Stockholm University Press. 10.16993/bbu.cSammendrag
From thirteenth-century Iceland, we have texts that tell us about a belief in local mountains where people could go after death. In mainland Scandinavia, the eighteenth-century sources for Sami religion tell us about a similar tradition. In this chapter, I will compare these traditions and argue that they overlapped both in content and geographically, and that they constituted a partly shared tradition. I will compare the textual information about the two traditions, and I will compare the relevant places in the context of the surrounding landscapes. In Sami tradition, the places are in a few cases lakes and rivers rather than mountains.