A Personal View on the Samenes historie fram til 1750 by Lars Ivar Hansen and Bjørnar Olsen

Samenes historie fram til 1750 offers a good illustration of the transformation that the scholarly interest in the Sami underwent during the last quarter of the 20th century. An archaeologist and a historian show how cooperation of two different methodologies of studying the past brings new insights, opens new perspectives and helps to view the past in its complexity. The reader is shown that in the quickly changing world the Sami appeared as dynamic as their neighbors and able to adopt new developments and adjust their strategies. The book surely deserves a serious professional debate of the past of the non‐Germanic inhabitants of the Nordic part of Europe. Their history remains generally unknown to European scholars, which is not surprising since it remains rather unknown to most Scandinavian scholars.