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Vol. 6 • No. 2 • 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 Daniel Andersson, “Courting Is Like Trading Horses, You Have to Keep Your Eyes Open.” Gender-Related Proverbs in a Peasant Society in Northern Sweden ................9 Mervi Koskela Vasaru, Bjarmaland and Interaction in the North of Europe from the Viking Age until the Early Middle Ages ..........................................................................37 Andrej Kotljarchuk, Kola Sami in the Stalinist Terror. A Quantitative Analysis. .59 Arthur Mason & Maria Stoilkova, Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development. .83 Reviews / Comptes rendus / Besprechungen Cathrine Baglo, På ville veger? Levende utstillinger av samer i Europa og Amerika (Diss., Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning, Institutt for arkeologi og sosialantropologi), Tromsø University 2011 (Anne Heith) ..........................97 Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th–18th Centuries. The Formation and Disappearance of an Ethnic Group (The Northern World. North Eu- rope and the Baltic, c. 400–1700 AD. Peoples, Economies and Cultures 57), Leiden & Boston: Brill 2012 (Andrejs Plakans) ................................................................... 106 Oskar Bandle, Die Gliederung des Nordgermanischen. Reprint der Erstauflage mit einer Einführung von Kurt Braunmüller (Beiträge zur nordischen Philologie 47), Tübingen & Basel: A. Francke Verlag 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ............................................................ 110 Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (ed.), Language of Science in the Eighteenth Century, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter Mouton 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ................................................... 110 Wilhelm Heizmann & Morten Axboe (Hrsgg.), Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwan- derungszeit. Auswertung und Neufunde (Die Goldbrakteaten der Völkerwanderungs- zeit 4.3), Berlin & New York: De Gruyter 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ................................. 111 Robert Nedoma, Altisländisches Lesebuch. Ausgewählte Texte und Minimalwörterbuch des Altisländischen (Indogermanische Bibliothek. Begründet von H. Hirt & W. Streitberg. Fortgeführt von H. Krahe. Herausgegeben von Alfred Bammesberger & Thomas Lindner. Erste Reihe. Lehr- und Handbücher), Heidelberg: Universi- tätsverlag Winter 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund). 113 Michael Schulte & Robert Nedoma (eds.), Language and Literacy in Early Scandi- navia and Beyond (NOWELE. North-Western European Language Evolution. Vols. 62/63, October 2011), Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark; Volda University College 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) .............................................................. 114 Dieter Strauch, Mittelalterliches nordisches Recht bis 1500. Eine Quellenkunde (Ergän- zungsbände zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Hrsg. von 3 Heinrich Beck, Dieter Geuenich & Heiko Steuer. Band 73), Berlin & New York: De Gruyter 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ........................................................................................ 115 Per-Axel Wiktorsson (ed.), Äldre Västgötalagen och dess bilagor i Cod. Holm. B 59. Utgivna av Föreningen för Västgötalitteratur, vols. 1–2 (Skara stiftshistoriska sällskaps skriftserie nr 60), [Skara]: Föreningen för Västgötalitteratur 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) ........................................................................................................................ 117 Lars Wollin (ed.), Bilden av Budde. Studier kring en svensk språkpionjär (Samlingar utg. av Svenska fornskriftsällskapet. Serie 1. Svenska skrifter 95), Uppsala: Svenska Fornskriftsällskapet 2011 (Lars-Erik Edlund) . 118 Instructions to Authors. .120 4 EDITORS Editor-in-chief: Professor Lars-Erik Edlund, Dept. of Language Studies, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Tel. +46-(0)90-786 7887 [email protected] Assistant editors: Professor emerita Barbro Klein, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Linneanum, Thunbergsv. 2, SE-752 38 Uppsala, Sweden [email protected] Professor emeritus Kjell Sjöberg, Dept. of Wildlife, Fish, and Environ- mental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden [email protected] Editorial secretary: Olle Sundström, PhD, Dept. of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden Tel. +46-(0)90-786 7627 [email protected] EDITORIAL BOARD Professor Johann P. Arnason, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Professor emerita Louise Bäckman, Stockholm, Sweden Associate professor Ingela Bergman, The Silver Museum, Arjeplog, Sweden Professor Susan Brantly, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor Ken Coates, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Professor Yvon Csonka, Swiss Federal Statistical Office in Neuchâtel, Switzerland Professor emeritus Öje Danell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sci- ences, Uppsala, Sweden Professor François-Xavier Dillmann, École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France Professor Thomas A. DuBois, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Professor emeritus Aant Elzinga, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Professor Ericka Engelstad, University of Tromsø, Norway Professor Sherrill E. Grace, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 5 Professor Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde University, Denmark Professor Annegret Heitmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Reader, PhD Cornelia Lüdecke, University of Hamburg, Germany Professor Else Mundal, University of Bergen, Norway Professor emeritus Einar Niemi, University of Tromsø, Norway Professor Jill Oaks, University of Manitoba, Canada Professor Lars Östlund, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden Professor Anssi Paasi, University of Oulu, Finland Professor emeritus Andrejs Plakans, Iowa State University, Ames, USA Professor Neil Price, University of Aberdeen, UK Professor Håkan Rydving, University of Bergen, Norway Professor Elena N. Sibileva, Northern State Medical University, Arkhangelsk, Russia Professor Anna-Leena Siikala, University of Helsinki, Finland Professor Peter Sköld, Umeå University, Sweden Professor Björn Wittrock, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala, Sweden 6 CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Andersson has a PhD in Scandinavian Languages and is currently a Postdoctoral fellow at The Department for Language Studies, Umeå University. His research interests include all aspects of the relationship between language, culture and cognition. [email protected] Mervi Koskela Vasaru (PhD) wrote her dissertation on Bjarmaland (2008) and is currently a freelance researcher with affiliation to the University of Oulu, Finland. She has written several articles on Bjarmaland and related subjects and is particularly interested in the late prehistoric and early medieval period in northern Europe. [email protected] Andrej Kotljarchuk is a Senior Researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University College, Sweden, where he took his PhD in 2006 on the dissertation In the Shadows of Poland and Russia. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Sweden in the European Crisis of the mid-17th Century. He has also published books and articles on the destiny of the Swedish colonists in Ukraine during the Soviet era. [email protected] Arthur Mason is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Califor- nia, Berkeley. His work is focused on energy development in Western Canada, Alaska, and the Barents Sea region of Norway and Russia. He holds degrees in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University (BA) and the University of California at Berkeley (PhD) and is the recipient of two Fulbright Chair awards for arctic research (Canada and Norway). [email protected] Maria Stoilkova is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, Gaines- ville. Her work is focused on international migration and the role of expertise in state-and-nation building in European and post-socialist contexts. She holds degrees in Sociology from Central European Uni- versity (MA) and in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (PhD). [email protected] 7 journal of northern studies Vol. 6 • No. 2 • 2012, pp. 9–36 DANIEL ANDERSSON “Courting Is Like Trading Horses, You Have to Keep Your Eyes Open” Gender-Related Proverbs in a Peasant Society in Northern Sweden ABSTRACT Proverbs offer insights into normative symbolic systems of mean- ing. In this article, proverbs collected in Northern Sweden that mirrors an older agrarian environment are studied with a specific