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Samuel Rheen

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Title page of Lapponia

Samuel Rheen (c. 1615 – 1680) was a Swedish priest, known for the work En kortt Relation om Lapparnes Lefwarne och Sedher, wijdskiepellsser, sampt i många Stycken Grofwe wildfarellsser [A brief treatise of the life and culture of the Sami, and their superstitions] (1671), being one of the earliest descriptions of Sami mythology and Sami noaidi.[1][2][3]

He grew up in Böle in Piteå and worked as a minister in Jokkmokk 1664/6-1671 and then in Råneå in Luleå until 1680.

His treatise was commissioned by the government as a part of a larger work describing the life and faith of the Sami. Together with other, similar "clergy correspondences", it served as a source for Johannes Schefferus and his book Lapponia in 1673. His treatise contained a drawing of a sami drum, with explanations of the symbols on the membrane.[4] Rheen was also one of the sources to professor K.B. Wiklund's assumption that Swedish reindeer herding Sami had used Norwegian islands during summer.[5]

References

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  1. ↑ "Nordlysveien - Myter". www.ub.uit.no.
  2. ↑ "Samiske kildeskrifter". www.love.is. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
  3. ↑ Berättelser om samerna i 1600-talets Sverige. Kungl. Skytteanska samfundets handlingar; 27 (in Swedish) (Faksimileutgåva av prästrelationerna först publicerade av K.B. Wiklund 1897-1909 /med företal av Phebe Fjellström och efterskrift av Israel Ruong ed.). Umeå: Skytteanska samf. 1983 [1897]. ISBN 91-86438-01-8. ISSN 0560-2416.
  4. ↑ Noaidier, historier om samiske sjamaner. Edited with an introduction by Brita Pollan [no]. XXXIX, 268 s. Oslo: Bokklubben, 2002. (Verdens Hellige Skrifter; 14). ISBN 82-525-5185-8
  5. ↑ politidepartementet, Justis-og (December 3, 2007). "NOU 2007: 14". Regjeringen.no.