by Karen Nyenhuis | Sep 3, 2024 | Early Scandinavia, Just Knud Qvigstad, Norse Mythology, Sami History
This is the drawing of the Sami ceremonial drum found in the Naerøy Manuscript, attributed to Thomas von Wessen, 1723. It is in the public domain, and there are other versions of it that render more detail. Johan Randulf, the author of the Naeroy manuscript, rambles a...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Sep 1, 2024 | Early Scandinavia, Just Knud Qvigstad, Norse Mythology, Sami History
I am certain there has been new scholarship on the Naeroy Manuscript since Just Qvigstad published his summary of it in 1903, but since he was my great-grandmother’s brother and he looks like my late father, I have been slowly translating his work for my own...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Mar 30, 2024 | Early Scandinavia
We live on the site of an early American farmstead in the central Midwest. The first settler to the area was in 1802, and the first lots were sold in 1854. I found a patch of naturalized daffodils in the large woodland that has been undisturbed since the farmstead...
