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ACCOUNT OF DANISH LAPLAND BY LEEMS. 475
Through Norland, and among the Laplanders, who inhabit the Sneaafen mountains,
the Overhaldens, the Meragrians, the Tydalens, and other places in the government of
Drontheim Runic drums in great numbers have been found. I have given a kind of
one, which a certain Laplander of the mountain of Meragrian, in the parifh of Stordal,
pofleffed, delineated and engraved. In Finmark, efpecially in that tract of country
I firft went into on my miffion, Runic drums, as ufually called, were feldom ufed, as
far as I know, as they fubftituted m their place the covers of boxes and bowl dithes,
laid over with various colours,
Yet traces of them in that country have been found ; with a Laplander of Finmark
one was difcovered of the following kind: it was made from fir-tree, like a large hollow
crater or bowl; the bottem was bored through with two oval apertures, and at each
extremity, and a fox’s claws were fixed, the upper part of it being covered, like a drum,
with a fkin, which was diftinguifhed with paint from the boiled bark of elm, the colour
of which is a light red, by four lines, into five different compartments, in each of which,
between the lines, were feen figures expreflive each of their own peculiar omen.
In the Firft Compartment,
1. Was the figure of a man, called I/maris, who was thought to excite bad weather.
2. Theimage of a man called Diermes, which name fignifies thunder ; he, invoked by
prayer, by divine will, as the Laplanders explained it, could produce fair weather and
a ferene fky.
A kind of animal called Godde, which fignifies wild rein-deer. When the Runic
was {truck on, and the ring did not go to the image of this animal, it was a fign, that
he who confulted the inftrument on his profperous fuccefs in hunting the rein-deer
had loft his time.
On the Second Compartment ;
1. Tue circle through which the crofs line was drawn, whoie name is Beive, which
fignifies the fun: this was thought to produce fine weather,
2. The image of a man, Jbmel Barne, that is, Son of God ; this was thought to free
perfons from fin.
_ 3. The image Ibmel Atzhie, that is, God the Father; this was believed to punifh evil
and to procure remiflion of fins ; Chriftian death and falvation of foul.
4. The image of the facred place of worfhip, which they called a cathedral temple,
adding, that they there implored the good and falvation of the foul.
5. The image of a man, reprefenting the Holy Spirit, to which the name of angel was
‘put : he was believed to free from fin, to renovate man, that he fhould turn out a new
creature ; thus, by thefe three figures were reprefented the three perfons of the Divinity.
By each image, or picture, reprefenting the human form, a {tick, Junkar-Sobbe, that is,
the ftick of a noble youth, was feen painted ; the reafon of this was, as the rulers of
the earth hold in their hand a ftick, fo the fame was a fuitable emblem for thefe.
i On the Third Compartment,
AN image of a female was feen, reprefenting the fifter of Mary; whom, for that:
opinion of her was always confulted for aid and fuccour by child-bearing women.
2. The image of a woman, Maria Ibmel Aedne, that is, Mary the mother of God ;
fhe was principally thought to be fubfervient to child-bearing women, and the remiflion
of fins.
3. Three images, Joulo-Beive-Herak, that is, the lords of the feftival of the Nativity
of Chrift; firft, Vuo/tes Joulo-Beive Herra, that is, lord of the firft feaft; fecondly,
Nubbe Juolo-Beive Herra ; that is, lord of the fecond feaft; and thirdly Goaal-Mad
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