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In Northern Sa\u0301mi, the word \u00c6dnan<\/em> means the land, the earth, and my mother. It sounds similar to the word \u00e6dno<\/em>, \u201cthe river,\u201d and \u00e6dni<\/em>, \u201cthe mother.\u201d In today\u2019s orthography these words are written as eana(n)<\/em>, eatnu<\/em>, and eadni<\/em>. Etymologically they seem to come from the same root word, which roughly means \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Night camp at Lake Gobmeja\u0301vri, near to where Sweden, Finland, and Norway meet. Early spring 1913<\/em>
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The voice<\/p>\n

the cup that memory
\nfills
\nI drink your hair
\nand soar<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

Through the fells
\nthat birthed us and
\ntwine us together<\/p>\n

your body and mine<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

Fingers search
\nand the heart<\/p>\n

howls<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

Here
\nwhere I wander<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2013<\/p>\n

A rangeland runs
\nfrom the forest snow
\nto the windswept shore<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

There my herd scrapes
\nand leads us
\nland to land<\/p>\n

prying me from
\nyour arms<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/p>\n

Alone
\namong the lichen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Excerpted from <\/em>\u00c6dnan<\/a>\u00a0by Linnea Axelsson. Copyright \u00a9 2024 by Linnea Axelsson. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Northern Sa\u0301mi, the word \u00c6dnan means the land, the earth, and my mother. It sounds similar to the word \u00e6dno, \u201cthe river,\u201d and \u00e6dni, \u201cthe mother.\u201d In today\u2019s orthography these words are written as eana(n), eatnu, and eadni. Etymologically they seem to come from the same root word, which roughly means \u201cgreat.\u201d * Night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":231810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25508,3,43074,43076,26764],"tags":[92943,184,84413,36669,1262],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/9780593535455.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5rKFr-aednan","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}