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Bj?rn 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 :-)

: 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.

thansk you. It is nice to know it is still done, but it is a hard life.
I assume that reindeer never were able to be fully domesticated, so the
herders dpated to what could be done.

Wendy