This type of water-filled holes are called Hiidenkirnu (eng. Hiisi's butter making pot - Hiisi is a little devil or a pixie in the Finnish mythology)
On top of a duoddar / tunturi.
The reindeer weren't very co-operative. They just stood there in front of our car and didn't move.
In Finnish mythology the Hiisi people were better in everything than normal people. When human beings made butter from milk in a wooden pot they could make butter from water.
Unnatural creatures also grew their plants and vegetables from stone.
"Tee siä lehmän maitosista
niin miä teen maan vesisistä."
(You make that from a cow's milk
and I'll make that from Earth's water drops)
Those are great pictures!
ReplyDeleteTere! Fantastic reading your blog.. Can you recommend any good Sámigiella textbooks (English-Sami or Estonian-Sami) or language programs held up in Sámpi?
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