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Tero OTOT...Thanks for correcting my English! It's an honor (no joke!) to be corrected by a non-native (I assume that applies) whose native language has, what, 26 cases? I can see how the Germans and the Dutch do it (with similar language roots), but how you guys do it is voodoo to me. Can you confirm for me that Lapland is the northern area where Norway, Sweden, and Finland connect? And that the Lapps were (are?) a nomadic people that floated between those countries? I saw a movie a while back, set in the distant past up in Lapland. It was about this tribe that was attacked by vandals and pillaged, and then they had to flee to the coast where they were again under attack by the bad guys, but saved in the nick of time by the hero. I thought the film was very interesting with many (presumably accurate) anthropological details. Like after one of the men in the good tribe kills a bear, nobody is allowed to look at him for 3 days (and of course they have a special name for the bear, which I forgot) except through a little ring, or else they will die because he possesses some kind of life (death?) force from the bear. I can't remember the title of this film, but perhaps you are familiar with it. I know absolutely nothing of the historical context in which it was set, but it was fascinating nevertheless. I wondered whether they were speaking Finnish or Lapp (if that's a language). Do you know anything about this film (seem to remember it coming from Finland, and perhaps funded by some Arts council or other govenmental body there). I would assume this is a well-known film there as it was obviously painstakingly made. In curiosity, Greg |
