The Little Town in the Woods – Eastern Lapland #2
The second stage of the Finnmark trip (click here for the first part, the forest trek) consisted of a re-supply stop in Karasjok. I’d intended a quick in-and-out visit before … Continue reading
The Northernmost Forest – Eastern Lapland #1
Lapland is a place I love very much. It’s a great, empty land where human activity has left relatively little trace; a rarity in cluttered Europe. It’s also a place … Continue reading
The Figure of the Witch-Queen in Northern Mythology
“At length, when night was setting in, they saw a deep and unknown glen of joyless aspect before them; they descended into it, to avoid the bleak winds of … Continue reading
Ice & Stone – Crossing the Lyngen Alps
The mountain range known as the Lyngen Alps sits upon a peninsula in the shape of a spear-head, stabbing out from the north coast of Lapland into the cold sea beyond. … Continue reading
The Way, and the Waymarks – A Journey in Arctic Scandinavia
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. He who wills adventure will experience it- according to the measure … Continue reading
Feral Words 