Trade, tribute and household responses

During the Late Middle Ages the combined pressures from the stately tributary organizations of Novgorod and Norway, in cooperation with the capitalist organization of the German Hansa, seem to have driven the hunting population of Varanger in East Finnmark to exploit the wild reindeer resource heavily. The article deals with how a Saami household who lived in a turf house on a peninsula in the present municipality of Nesseby (Unjárgd) dealt with the situation.

Notes

Editorial note: The spelling of Saami place names in this paper is changed according to the new Saami orthography. The corrections are made by Berit Merete Nystad, Centre for Saami Studies, University of Tromsø. To avoid confusions the old spelling is placed in brackets after the first time the place name occurs in the text.