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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 453
As apaftime this exercife is received among them: two men hold a flick raifed above
the ground no great diftance, a third on a ftaff flies up to them, and when he has come
as near as poflible to them, fupported on the ftaff, he fprings over the barrier.
The Laplanders are great wreftlers, this exercife they ufe partly for amufement,
partly for keeping off the cold. I have been an eye-witnels more than once of this kind
of exercife, efpecially on journeys which I had to make in their company over the
mountains. It then frequently happened that, when the rein-deer ftopped and fed on
the mofs that grew under the {now, their drivers in amufement would repel the force of
the cold front them by wreftling.
Two men hold a rope extended on two fticks at a fmall diftance afunder; one of
thefe holds with each hand on one fide, both of the ends of the one {ftick;°the
other, on the other fide, does exactly the fame. Each then {trives- with his whole force
to take the {tick from the other, and that he fhould the more eafily mafter his with,
he has one or more friends at hand behind him, who affift him by plying their fhoulders
to his exertions. Whoever of thefe twifts the {tick from the other, carries off the prize,
and yields.to him what has been agreed upon between them.
They put two fticks into a ball of thread and lay hold of them when in, and in op-
pofition to each other, each drags with all his might to himfelf until the ball is broken
up in their wreftling. This exercife, which they call Bolokiit Kiacfct, is made asa
trial of {trength, to afcertain which is ftronger than the other.
An exercife has been received among the Laplanders, that two men ftanding
oppofite to each other, the one putting his hand on the girdle of the other in
order to fupplant him, fhould try_their ftrength. He that overfets the other is the
conqueror. é :
The young men play by throwing fticks with amazing agility from hand to hand ;
this kind of amefement is called in Lapland Baettom.
They even fuffer themfelves, after the manner of rein-deer, to be girt and driven for
amufement. ‘
Here I thall afk pardon of the benevolent reader for mentioning certain incidents which
befel me and others ; thefe are of no great moment, yet, as being uncommon and not
known, | fhall mention them.
I paid a vifit on a certain time to the clergyman of the living of Koudekein; John
Junell. That venerable man received me with all imaginable politenefs, laying before me
what he had at hand, namely, broth made from frefh rein-deer, fith frefh from the
river, and, what you may perhaps be furprifed at, rein-deer cheefe, boiled whole in a
pot, {prinkled with much fugar, and placed on a plate in the manner of a tart. But
of this clergyman this is remarkable, he being the whole fummer almoft deftitute
of cattle; as it appears, that almoft all the Laplanders who make up that church, in the
parifhes of Skiervoe and Carlfoe, fituated in the parts of Norland, are accuftomed to
emigrate in the fummer feafon to the coaits. “
It happened, when on the Chriftmas-eve I was lodged in a certain houfe appointed
for receiving the clergyman, going to do duty on the next feftival in the church of
Kiftrand, built at the firft time of the miflion, that a fmall portion of frefh milk was
given me asa prefent. From this I was inclined to make fome frumety, but was ex.
ceedingly difappointed ; for the cook to whom | had given this in charge, mingled fuch
a quantity of falt in this gruel for me, fo imprudently, that I was little inclined to tafte
it, much lefs to eat the whole of the mels. ‘The man didit in the fimplicity of his mind,
but he was attentive even toa fault. Meantime I went to bed, having nothing at hand
to appeafe a hungry appetite with,
During
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