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Vol. 6 • No. 1 • 2012 Vol. 6 • No. 1 • 2012 Published by Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society Umeå 2012 The Journal of Northern Studies is published with support from The Royal Skyttean Society and Umeå University © The authors and Journal of Northern Studies ISSN 1654-5915 Cover picture Scandinavia Satellite and sensor: NOAA, AVHRR Level above earth: 840 km Image supplied by METRIA, a division of Lantmäteriet, Sweden. www.metria.se NOAA®. ©ESA/Eurimage 2001. ©Metria Satellus 2001 Design and layout Leena Hortéll, Ord & Co i Umeå AB Fonts: Berling Nova and Futura Paper: Invercote Creato 260 gr and Artic volume high white 115 gr Printed by Davidsons Tryckeri AB, Växjö Contents / Sommaire / Inhalt Editors & Editorial board ................................................................................................................5 Contributors ...................................................................................................................................... 7 Articles / Aufsätze Thomas B. Larsson, Gunhild Rosqvist, Göran Ericsson & Jans Heinerud, Climate Change, Moose and Humans in Northern Sweden 4000 cal. yr BP .................................9 Elina Apsite, Emma Lundholm & Olof Stjernström, Baltic State Migration System. The Case of Latvian Immigrants in Sweden ..........................................................................31 Aant Elzinga, Roald Amundsen and his Ambiguous Relationship to Science. A Look at Outcomes of his Six Expeditions .......................................................................... 53 Miscellanea: Notes / Notizen Lisbeth Lewander (1956–2012) (Aant Elzinga). .111 Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen Review Essay: Changing Trends in Remembering Amundsen and Scott. Ross D. E. MacPhee, Race to the End. Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole, New York: Sterling Publishing Co. 2010; Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice. Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, New Haven & London: Yale University Press 2011; Cornelia Lüdecke, Roald Amundsen. Ein biografisches Porträt, Freiburg–Basel–Wien: Verlag Herder GmbH 2011 (Aant Elzinga). 113 Johan Schimanski, Cathrine Theodorsen & Henning Howlid Wærp (eds.), Reiser og ekspedisjoner i det litterære Arktis, Trondheim: Tapir Akademisk Forlag 2011 (Anne Heith). 123 Valery Vasilyev, Arkhaicheskaya toponimiya novgorodskoy zemli. Drevneslavyanskiye deantroponimniye obrazovaniya, Veliky Novgorod 2005 (Konstantin Zhukov) ............130 Marit Åhlén, Runstenar i Uppsala län berättar, Uppsala: Upplandsmuseet 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) .........................................................................................................................134 M. H. Brummer, Försök Til et Swenskt Skogs- och Jagt-Lexicon (Skogs- och lantbruks- historiska meddelanden 49. Supplement till Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakad- emiens Tidskrift), Stockholm: Kungl. Skogs- och lantbruksakademien 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) .........................................................................................................................134 Henrik Galberg Jacobsen, Ret og Skrift. Officiel dansk retskrivning 1739–2005, 1. Direktiver. Aktører. Normer; 2. Ordlister. Kronologi. Bibliografi (Dansk Sprognævns skrifter 42), Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) .........................................................................................................................135 Elin Gunleifsen, Attributive uttrykk for prototypisk possessivitet. En komparativ studie av talespråklig variasjon och endring i Kristiansand og Arendal, Oslo: Novus forlag 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund). 136 Odd Einar Haugen & Åslaug Ommundsen (eds.), Vår eldste bok. Skrift, miljø og biletbruk i den norske homilieboka (Bibliotheca Nordica 3), Oslo: Novus Forlag 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) .........................................................................................................................137 3 Steffen Höder, Sprachausbau im Sprachkontakt. Syntaktischer Wandel im Altschwed- ischen, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ..................... 139 Lars Holm, Till bords med biskop Jesper Swedberg. Mat och dryck i Swensk Ordabok (ca 1725). Med belysande utdrag ur samtida handböcker, Skara: Föreningen för Västgötalitteratur 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund). 140 Ann-Marie Ivars, Sydösterbottnisk syntax (Skrifter utg. av Svenska litteratursällska- pet i Finland 743. Studier i nordisk filologi 84), Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursäll- skapet i Finland 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund). 141 Jon Gunnar Jørgensen & Lars S. Vikør (eds.), Nordiskfaget. Tradisjon og fornying, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ..........................................................................142 Lena Lind Palicki, Normaliserade föräldrar. En undersökning av Försäkringskassans broschyrer 1974–2007 (Örebro Studies in the Swedish Language 6), Örebro: Örebro University 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) .........................................................................................143 Maria Löfdahl, Fredrik Skott & Lena Wenner (eds.), Från sjö till hav. Namn- och ordstudier tillägnade Birgit Falck-Kjällquist, Göteborg: Institutet för språk och folkminnen 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ......................................................................................144 Staffan Nyström (ed.), Namn. En spegel av samhället förr och nu (Ord och stil. Språkvårdssamfundets skrifter 41), Stockholm: Norstedts 2010 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ........................................................................................................................145 Instructions to Authors. 147 4 JOURNAL OF NORTHERN STUDIES Vol. 6 • No. 1 • 2012, pp. 113–146 Reviews/Comptes rendus/Besprechungen Review Essay Changing Trends in Remembering Amundsen and Scott Ross D. E. MacPhee, Race to the End. Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole, New York: Sterling Publishing Co. 2010, ISBN 9781402770296, 245 pp. plus panorama foldout plates and map; Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice. Scott, Shackle- ton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, New Haven & London: Yale University Press 2011, ISBN 9780300154085, 288 pp.; Cornelia Lüdecke, Roald Amundsen. Ein biografisches Porträt, Freiburg–Basel–Wien: Verlag Herder GmbH 2011, ISBN 9783451062247, 208 pp. The past couple of years have seen publication of several books dealing with the epic drama of men struggling with Nature and each other to be the first to reach the geographic South Pole. Roald Amundsen and four companions, citizens of a newly independent Norway were the first to make it, reaping the prize before the rival party of Robert Falcon Scott did. Amundsen had officially set out to repeat Fridtjof Nansen’s experiment of locking his ship the Fram in the Arctic sea ice to follow its drift and undertake original oceanographic research, but he had the audacity to change his mind and head for the South Pole, thereby challenging Scott whose expedition had the backing of the British Empire. The outcome is well known. Amundsen’s superior planning, know-how re- garding survival under polar conditions and efficient use of Inuit style clothing and dogsleds won the day over Scott’s naval tradition of man hauling, poorer clothing and insufficient preparations. Amundsen made it back to civilization to announce his own achievement; Scott and his four companions froze to death near a depot they were unable to reach on their return to base-camp. Both men had their names inscribed in the history of their respective nations, symbolizing respectively the ingenuity and prowess of a newly independent nation on the rise and the onset perhaps of the decline of the world’s biggest imperial power at that time. Both Norway and the UK have made their national heroes the focal points of many events commemorating the “conquest” of the South Pole. From 2010 onward into 2012 there have been exhibitions and seminars of various kinds com- memorating the Amundsen and Scott expeditions. A team of skiers from Nor- way has re-enacted Amundsen’s trek to the pole. They left the Bay of Whales on 113 REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS/BESPRECHUNGEN the Ross Ice Shelf on 1 October 2011 and two of them made it all the way to the pole by 14 December; two others had to be flown in the last 80 kilometres. A Brit- ish group paying tribute to Scott and his men traced the original rescue party’s tracks from Hut Point to Scott’s final camp where they met up with several other persons flown in for a memorial ceremony. Nowadays well trained sportsmen and adventurers pulling lightweight sleds made of new composite materials, packing dry-frozen foods, very light tents and sometimes using sails and the latest ski equipment have made it to the Pole, in- termittently in contact by satellite telephone with people back home and writ- ing daily reports with pictures inserted in blogs. In case of mishaps support for airborne rescue may be called upon. The situation is quite different from what it was one hundred years ago. This struck me when I was in Tromsø on 14 December 2011. The national celebration of Amundsen’s South Pole achievement took place that day in Tromsø, Northern Norway, where the Norwegian Polar Institute is now located. Festivities included the unveiling next to the Polar activity centre (Polaria) of a statue depicting Helmer Hansen in front of a dogsled; Hansen, an ice skipper, was a native of Northern Norway and the lead sledge-driver on the trek to the Pole. A polar parade went through the streets of Tromsø to Stortorget, the city’s main square where there
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