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Isak Saba Author

Just Knud Qvigstad (1853–1957) was a Norwegian philologist, linguist, and ethnographer. He wrote and published extensively on the Sámi people of northern Scandinavia, and his substantial collection of Sámi folktales resulted in the publication of Lappiske eventyr og sagn, presented in four volumes from 1927 to 1929.

Isak Saba (1875–1921) was a Sámi teacher, politician, and folklorist who collected and translated folktales from eastern Finnmark, including material from the Skolt Sámi. Saba's tales were published in Lappiske eventyr og sagn after his death.

Barbara Sjoholm is an award-winning translator. She is author of many books, including From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture and The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi, and she translated By the Fire: Sámi Folktales and Legends, collected by Emilie Demant Hatt, all published by the University of Minnesota Press.