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464 ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS.
chiefly flain when they were fuccefsful in fifhing and hunting. This is apparent fron
the defcription of a very famous place of facrifice, Leunje-sauvre fuolo, given by me.
In the places where they had flain their rein-deer, they ufually left behind them fome
fmall parts of the beaft they had taken, horns, and parts of the flefh which had covered
the fkull and feet, in token and fignification of a mind devoted to the gods.
As to the places in which the Pagan Laplanders had formerly facrificed, it appears,
that they were various facred high places, Pafe Vareck, in the bay of Varangar, in the
parifh of Vafo, in the diftrict of Thana, in the bay of Laxefiord, in the parifh of
Kiollefiord, in the bay of Porfanger, and many others, which they held in religious
veneration.
Paffe Varek, or facred high places, which they formerly held in religious veneration
in the bay of Varangar, are as follow :
1. Meifhe-Vare Paffe-Aldo, that is, facred rein-deer of the mountain of Meifke.
That which is called facred is really fo, or is faid to be, or to have been very little fo.
The female rein-deer in the Norwegian is called Simle. . Hence whatever high places,
called from Paffe Aldo, or facred rein-deer, were formerly confecrated, had their
name, no doubt, from the rein-deer, which were facrificed there. ‘The mountain men-
tioned is faid to be fituated in the inner recefs of Varangar bay ; hither is a great
concourfe of Laplanders. The upper part is a level, the lower is covered with a wood
of birchen trees. ‘There is a report that facrifices were formerly made to the idol Stor-
junkare, in that place, and, in proof of the facrifices which they made there, a number
of the bones of the rein-deer a few years hence were feen in that place.
2. Styren-Aldo, that is, rein-deer of the mountain Styre. In this place, the Lap-
landers formerly worfhipped thunder.
3. Nicid-Vare Paffe-Aldo, holy rein-deer of the virgin mountain. Here was a facrifice
performed to the Joulo Gadze, or to the fociety of the Yules.
4. Kalbmen Bafte, that is, the cold rock, or rock of cold.
5. A certain ftone, called in the Lapland Zhievures-Ibmel, that is, god of the otter.
And here the very name is a proof of the idolatry that was formerly exercifed in that
lace.
6. Guuli-Ibmel, that is, god of fifhes. For good luck in fifhing, it appears, that they
had formerly facrificed at this {tone.
7. Muorje Ibmel Paffe-Aldo, that is, facred rein-deer of the god of berries. Even
the very name of the divinity given to this mountain fufficiently declares, that it was
formerly facred and religioufly worfhipped.
8. JuureVucdna Paffe- Aldo, that is, facred rein-deer of the bay of Juuren.
9. Raige-Bafte-Aldo, that is, rein-deer of the perforated rock.
10. A certain mountain of immenfe height, named by the Laplanders Balda-Zhiok,
is called the Great Flounder’s Head.
Paffe-Varek, or facred rocks, which the Laplanders have religioufly adored on the
fummit of the mountain Neiden, are as follow:
1. Niaekkem-Karg, that is, the mountain of creeping.
2. Ruoude Zhiold, that is, iron fummit.
3+ Ullo-Vaerre, that is, mountain of wool.
4. Jerge-Jerge, that is, rocky ftone. By the way, it is to be obferved, that certain
Laplanders call a {tone Jerge, which others in their dialect call Ged’ ye.
5. Zhiuodzhio-Akkom, thatis, my abiding grandame; meaning grandmother by the
father or mother’s fide, which in no fmall number of places of Norway is fo called.
6. Zaagees-Bafle, that is, rock of foundation.
le 7. Gunii.
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