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The History of Lapland

The History of Lapland

by Johannes Scheffer

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Author
Scheffer, Johannes, 1621-1679
Title
The History of Lapland Wherein Are Shewed the Original, Manners, Habits, Marriages, Conjurations, &c. of That People
Credits
Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DL: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Northern Europe, Scandinavia
Subject
Lapland -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 59695
Release Date
June 7, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.THE HISTORY OF LAPLAND
  3. 3.Imprimatur
  4. 4.THE PREFACE.
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.CHAP. I. Of the Name of Lapland.
  7. 7.CHAP. II. Of the Situation of Lapland.
  8. 8.CHAP. III. Of the temperature of the Air, and soil of Lapland.
  9. 9.CHAP. IV. Of the Division of Lapland.
  10. 10.CHAP. V. Of the Laplanders in reference to the inclinations, temper and habit, of their minds and bodies .
  11. 11.CHAP. VI. Of the Originall of the Laplanders.
  12. 12.CHAP. VII. Of the Religion of the Laplanders.
  13. 13.CHAP. VIII. Of the second, or Christian Religion of the Laplanders.
  14. 14.CHAP. IX. Of some remains of Paganism in Lapland at this time.
  15. 15.CHAP. X. Of the heathenish Gods of the Laplanders, and their manner of worship at this day.
  16. 16.CHAP. XI. Of the magicall Ceremonies of the Laplanders.
  17. 17.CHAP. XII. Of the Government of the Laplanders.
  18. 18.CHAP. XIII. Of the Judicatures and Tributes of the Laplanders.
  19. 19.CHAP. XIV. Of the Laplanders Fairs, and Customs in Trading.
  20. 20.CHAP. XV. Of the Language of the Laplanders.
  21. 21.CHAP. XVI. Of the Houses of the Laplanders.
  22. 22.CHAP. XVII. Of the Garments of the Laplanders.
  23. 23.CHAP. XVIII. Of the Diet of the Laplanders.
  24. 24.CHAP. XIX. Of the Hunting of the Laplanders.
  25. 25.CHAP. XX. Of the Laplanders Weapons, and other instruments of Hunting .
  26. 26.CHAP. XXI. Of the Laplanders Handycraft-trades .
  27. 27.CHAP. XXII. Of the Womens Emploiments.
  28. 28.CHAP. XXIII. Of the Emploiments common to both Sexes.
  29. 29.CHAP. XXIV. Of their Divertisements.
  30. 30.CHAP. XXV. Of their Contracts and Marriages.
  31. 31.CHAP. XXVI. Of their Child-bearing, and the Education of their Children.
  32. 32.CHAP. XXVII. Of their Diseases, Death and Burial.
  33. 33.CHAP. XXVIII. Of their Cattel.
  34. 34.CHAP. XXIX. Of the wild Beasts of the Laplanders.
  35. 35.CHAP. XXX. Of their Birds and Fish.
  36. 36.CHAP. XXXI. Of the Laplanders Trees and Plants .
  37. 37.CHAP. XXXII. Of their Mettals.
  38. 38.CHAP. XXXIII. Of their Stones, Jewels, and Pearls.
  39. 39.CHAP. XXXIV. Of their Rivers.
  40. 40.CHAP. XXXV. Of their Mountains.
  41. 41.THE CONTENTS. — FOOTNOTES — Transcriber's Note

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