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This display of coyness appears to be an
old-established form of propriety among these people.
Scheffer (‘History of Lapland,’ published 1674),
describing the procession to a Lapp wedding, says:
“’Tis here to be observed that the bride, like one
struggling against it, and endeavouring to the
contrary, is dragged along by the man and woman
that are to wait upon her, and would seem to
admit of her marriage with great reluctancy, and
therefore her countenance makes show of
extraordinary sadness and dejection.”
On my first visit to Hammerfest, when I saw
so many of the Sea Lapps eating their suppers,
saying their prayers, and going to bed so publicly,
afloat in their little open boats under the sunny
midnight sky, I wondered how they fared in
winter time; but on this occasion I found, on
wandering to the east end of Hammerfest, a row
or street of their “gammer” or winter residences,
shown in the engraving opposite. These are built
of turf, and now have actual glass windows, which
is, I am told, one of the modern innovations upon
the primitive gammer. To those who are not
fastidious in the matter of atmosphere, such
thick-walled turf edifices are charmingly snug and warm
in the winter time, when the animal heat of a
large family is added to that derived from the rude
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