Matti Aikio

A S mi dentist by the name of Olle writes a book entitled 'Cheerful Tenacity.' After his marriage to Agnete falls apart he becomes the 'host' at a mountain chapel where migrating S mi reindeer herders spend Easter and Christmas. He's mainly responsible for a group sauna where 11 people die from the cold. He becomes friends with a S mi family and has a relationship with their younger daughter who is much younger than Olle. After less than a year Olle told he isn't the right person to be host. He heads south perhaps to get together with Agnete who has written to him several times.

Matti Aikio's first novel from 1904. Falk is a S mi though the other characters do not know this. He comes to an upper class family where he is to tutor 16-year-old Jenny. They eventually fall in love. Her father approves though only because Falk knows that he had been involved in some mischief.

Matti Aikio (1872-1929) was a S mi who wrote in Norwegian at a time when indigenous people were new to reading and writing. Poor health when young meant he was ill equipped for physical labor. He did not learn to write Norwegian until he was eighteen and then spent his relatively short life among Norwegians in Oslo penning novels and articles for newspapers. In Reindeer Hide from 1906, his first Norwegian novel, is a story with two strands: reindeer theft and a love affair between a S mi boy and a Norwegian girl that is doomed by cultural and societal mores.His best known novel is The Village at the Riverbend, available from Agarita Press and Amazon.

A novel about a small S mi, Norwegian and Kven village in northern Norway in the late 19th century.

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