> Hmm, I saw Veiviseren on NRK (Norwegian TV), so I sort of semi-qualify.
Since the subtitles are in bokm�l, a dane would qualify any day :)
> > The movie never explain where the bad guys come from,
>
> It does name them - IIRC they're called something like Bjarmen - and
> it is the name of a trader people who indeed scoured the Finnmark
> around the Viking Age. They came from what was to become northern
> Russia, IIRC. I've got a book on the regional history of the Tysfjord
> area which mentions them.
In the movie they were called 'tsjurde'. I have no idea of what that really means, but I got the impression that they used it as 'foreign bandit' or 'foreign raider'
> > Very good movie. Although
> > I've always thought of the main characters as Uncolings.
>
> They come close - during this time the Lapps kept only a few beasts as
> beasts of burden or decoys, and followed the wild herds of reindeer.
> However, the coastal settlements were less Uncoling, fisherfolk and
> hunters. Perhaps almost a Rathori analogon (there is a nice bear-hunt
> scene, too, whereafter the bear's spirit is treated as kin).
Nice touch where the shaman had to look at his kin through a ring after slaying the Bear. Killing a bear gave him so much power that he had to protect his relatives.
"If we were always to judge from reality, games would be nonsense. But if games were nonsense what else would there be left to do?" - Tolstoy
Frank Rafaelsen
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