‘Ipmiláhčči is everywhere’

Lived Christianity among the Sámi

“If I see a gufihtarnieida playing, running there around the junipers, I cannot tell the priest. How on earth could that poor priest grasp that? He has not learned that in his theology.”

– Ann Solveig

While it is not quite true to say that the Sámi are the last people in Europe to have adopted Christianity, they were certainly among the last – and withou…