Bjørn Steensrud wrote:

> W. Baker wrote:
>
> [massive snippage]
>
>> Do the Lapps still move with the reindeer herds
>> in Northern Scandinavia? all ancient practices.
>>
>> Wendy
>
> They do. In the northernmost part of Norway, they walk from the inland
> plain to the coast, freighted by boats/small ships to the islands to graze
> all summer. When summer is ending they SWIM back to the mainland, with
> boats standing by to help stragglers. They are in much better shape than
> in the spring :-)

I should add that the deer walk and swim, not the Sami :-)


> There's also reindeer herding in the southern mountains, less movement but
> they have to be watched all the time so they don't join the herds of wild
> reindeer.