Vol. 10 • No. 1 • 2016 Published by Umeå University & The Royal Skyttean Society Umeå 2016 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 Sheep bound for mountain pastures in Lyngsalpan [‘The Lyngen Alps’] in Northern Norway 2014. Photo: Tor Arne Lillevoll. Design and layout Lotta Hortéll och Leena Hortéll, Ord & Co i Umeå AB Fonts: Berling Nova and Futura Paper: CT+ 300 gr and Pro Design 100 gr Printed by UmU-Tryckservice, Umeå University Contents / Sommaire / Inhalt Editors & Editorial board ................................................................................................................5 Articles / Aufsätze Tor Arne Lillevoll, Sheep Farmers in the Realm of Læstadius. Science and Religion as Motivating Forces in the Community of Practice in Northern Norway ...................7 Ketil Lenert Hansen, Asle Høgmo & Eiliv Lund, Value Patterns in Four Dimensions among the Indigenous Sami Population in Norway. A Population-Based Survey .... 39 Lars Larsson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo & Jenny Åkermark, Climate Change Adaptation and Vulnerability Planning within the Municipal and Regional System. Examples from Northern Sweden ............................................................................................67 Miscellanea: Notes / Notizen Anna-Leena Siikala (1943–2016) (Karina Lukin). 91 Reviews /Comptes rendus / Besprechungen Kajsa Andersson (ed.), L’Image du Sápmi. Études comparées, vol. 1–3, Örebro: Örebro University 2009–2013 (Hans-Roland Johnsson). 93 Gerd Braune, Die Arktis. Porträt einer Weltregion, Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag 2016 (Aant Elzinga) ................................................................................................................................106 Anita G.J. Buma, Annette J.M. Scheepstra & Richard Bintanja (eds.), Door de kou bevangen. Vijftig jaar Nederlands onderzoek in de poolgebieden, Lelystad: MaRiSuDa Uitgeverij 2016 (Aant Elzinga) ............................................................................109 Cornelia Lüdecke, Deutsche in der Antarktis. Expeditionen und Forschungen von Kaiserreich bis heute, Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag 2015 (Aant Elzinga) ...............................116 Frédérique Rémy, Le monde givré, Paris: Éditions Hermann 2016 (Karin Becker) ......127 Nicolas Meylan, Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland. The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance, Turnhout: Brepols 2014 (Olof Sundqvist) ...................134 Johan Schimanski & Ulrike Spring, Passagiere des Eises. Polarhelden und arktische Diskurse 1874, Wien: Böhlau Verlag 2015 (Aant Elzinga). 140 Anna Nilsén, The Gothic Sculpture of Uppsala Cathedral. On Spiritual Guidance and Creative Joy, Turnhout: Brepols 2014 (Margrethe C. Stang) ............................................. 153 Instructions to Authors. 157 3 REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS/BESPRECHUNGEN Cornelia Lüdecke, Deutsche in der Antarktis. Expeditionen und Forschungen von Kaiserreich bis heute, Berlin: Chr. Links Verlag 2015, ISBN 9783861538257 (hardcover), 224 pp. & 207 ill. The author of the cited volume is a prolific scholar who has done much to draw attention to Germany’s record as an actor in the early history of polar research and exploration, not least concerning Antarctica. In this richly illustrated coffee table-style book she takes a broad but expertly documented sweep in tracing the evolution of Germany’s presence in Antarctica from the time of the Wilhelmine Empire to the present. The publication is the result of an outreach project to inform a broader pub- lic about Germany’s Antarctic endeavours at a time, today, when issues such as the role of the poles in anthropogenic-driven climate change and the impact of Antarctic tourism have become highly topical. The author reminds us how knowledge of the history of human activities in the Polar Regions is relevant for understanding complexities behind current events and their multiple natural and social contexts. Brought together under her historical lens, science, high politics, personal drama and or- ganized adventure in the icy sea- and landscapes of the globe’s southern cryosphere are subjected to inquisitive analysis. In the late 1980s, Cornelia Lüdecke analysed the influence of Georg von Neumayer’s plan for an Antarctic expedition. That led her to peruse archival material relating to events in the late nineteenth century. Some of this work culminated in a dissertation (Lüdecke 1995) on German po- lar research at the turn of that century with particular reference to the role of the geographer and glaciologist Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949). He participated during the short period of international co-ordination and rivalry in the so-called heroic age manifested in the series of nation- al expeditions associated with other well-known explorers such as de Gerlache, Scott, Bruce, Nordenskjöld, Shackleton, Amundsen, Filchner and others. Drygalski’s Gauss was the first German ship specially de- signed as a platform for polar research; the design was inspired by the success of Fridtjof Nansen’s Fram with its rounded hull. Drygalski’s own account of the German South Polar Expedition of 1901–1903 (as Germany’s first Antarctic expedition was originally called) was published in German in 1904; it became available in English only in 1989, translated by M.M. Raraty, who also wrote an informative introduction that summarized salient events and placed them in context. Cornelia Lüdecke’s dissertation when it appeared (in German) added much more depth and historical contextualization. In 2013 she edited and facilitated publication of a new German issue of Drygalski’s book (Lüdecke [Hsg.] 2013). 116 JOURNAL OF NORTHERN STUDIES Vol. 10 • No. 1 • 2016, pp. 93–156 The official account of the Second German Antarctic Expedition of 1911–1913, published in German by its leader Wilhelm Filchner (1877– 1957) in collaboration with two fellow expedition-members, appeared in 1922, giving a sanitized version of an endeavour where much went wrong. It took over 60 years before one could learn about the full extent of all that had gone wrong and some of the causes underlying a com- plete deterioration of social relations between the ship’s captain and the expedition leader and the formation of a large clique whose main mis- sion was to isolate and make Filchner’s life sour on the Deutschland (as the ship was called). This became publicly known only when Filchner a few years before his death compiled what he called his Feststellungen [‘Exposé’] of the true story. The Exposé was posthumously published in 1985 thanks to efforts of the archivist at the Deutsche Geodätische Kommission, Dr Gottlob Kirschmer (Munich). When the historian of polar research and exploration William Barr translated and edited Filch- ner’s official account of the expedition, he appended this document to- gether with another revealing text to the English language volume that appeared in 1994. Thus, by the mid-1990s, Anglophone readers too had access to a fuller story of the second major German Antarctic enterprise. Since then, Cornelia Lüdecke herself has been instrumental in piecing together the story of the Third German Antarctic Expedition (1938/1939) and making it available in English. In 2003 she wrote a key article in which she drew attention to the scientific significance of the Third German Antarctic Expedition that took place just before the Sec- ond World War led by the naval officer Alfred Ritscher; she thereby dis- pelled the popular myth that this was an expedition mostly geared to a Nazi propaganda effort and therefore not worthy of serious mention in the annals of Antarctic exploration and research. Delving further into archival documents, correspondence and the realities of economic and geopolitical history, as well as the history of whaling, our author later joined forces with the historically minded British marine geologist and oceanographer Colin Summerhayes as co-author to produce a compre- hensive study in a book (Lüdecke & Summerhayes 2012), entitled The Third Reich in Antarctica. The German Antarctic Expedition 1938–39.1 In this way the story of the third German Antarctic Expedition was for the first time told in a well-documented and nicely illustrated volume in English. In the new book under review here, Cornelia Lüdecke draws upon her earlier research plus additional archival material to fill out the his- torical panorama, now also covering the episode of the Second German Antarctic Expedition led by Wilhelm Filchner. The reader is provided 117 REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS/BESPRECHUNGEN with a full continual storyline (in German) of German contributions in Antarctica from the very beginnings right up to the present. The narrative is semi-popular in style but sacrifices neither historiographi- cal depth nor stringency. Developments in German exploration and re- search in Antarctica are highlighted from the period of its gestation in the classical fin de siècle period to the time of Ritscher’s Schwabenland expedition, and thereafter we learn about a phase of post-Second World War inactivity. Then comes a review of the advent of new activities that led to Germany’s emergence in the 1980s and 1990s as a nation once more to be reckoned with, before the focus shifts beyond that period and into the first decade and more of the new millennium. The entire narrative, in chronological order, comprises four parts or chapters, flanked by a preface and an equally brief “outlook” into