Research: Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539.

More story research: Carta Marina, Olaus Magnus, 1539. A sea map depicting the Nordic and some of the Baltic countries; Wikipedia has a wonderful high-res version of this map. The proportions are wonky especially when it comes to inland areas, but I would guess my home area is somewhere above the lake located on top left…

Story research time: Drawings by Olaus Magnus, 1555, depicting various happenings in Saami life at the time. Images yanked from the SaamiBlog flickr set, where you can find more detailed captions. Unfortunately I was too tired to google deeper for uncropped images… I was bitten by the research bug thanks to MedievalPOC and decided to…