Chapter 1: Introduction: Northern Exposure The North and the world Relationality, spirituality and the richness of reality Spirituality and magic in the northern world Knowing the world Relationality and the northern world Time, temporality and the longue durée Defining the North A brief outline of the Fennoscandian past The structure of the book PART I: LAND Chapter 2: Stone-worlds A race to the Arctic The world inside the rock Crystal cavities and other marvels of the Underworld Cavities and recent folklore in the North Early modern northern mining as dreamwork Disciplining and ordering of the North Mining and magic Dreams of Lapland''s gold The enduring allure of minerals and the Underworld Chapter 3: Houses, Land and Soil Dwellings, people and the cosmos in the North The introduction of the house Pottery, semi-subterranean houses and cultural transformation Early pottery, cultivation and place making Houses and the changing relationship with the underworld Clay work as a means of restructuring human-environment relations Living in an inspirited world The inspirited house Chapter 4: Forests and Hunting The forest in northern landscapes and mindscapes Engaging with trees Humans and animals in the north Seducing the prey Elk-headed staffs - symbols of Stone Age clans? Sceptres of the shaman? The Bear - the ''Golden King of the Forest'' PART II: SEA Chapter 5: Coastal landscapes and the sea Living with the sea The two mediterraneans Engaging with changing coastal environments The temporality of Baltic coastal landscapes Cairns in northern coastal landscapes Otherworldly islands Coastal mazes in the North Chapter 6: Boats and waterways The mystery object from a Lapland bog Water and the Otherworld in a northern context Travelling as a spirit fish Blue elks and flying boats Solar boats in razors and rock art Boats for the dead Chapter 7: River mouths and central places The real and mythical rivers River mouths as liminal spaces and central places Mythical kingdoms in later prehistory The ''trader kingdom'' of the birkarls Market places PART III: SKY Chapter 8: Birds and cosmology Migratory birds and changing seasons Birds as persons Birds as guides and soul-birds Cranes and dwarfs Devil''s swans Solar swans? Chapter 9: The sun, light and fire People of the Sun Amber and Apollo Worshipping the northern sun The marriage of fire and earth Fire and the hearth in northern cultures Fire and transformation Strange lights in the Northern Sky Chapter 10: Epilogue A world full of life The North and the South as dreamwork Disciplining and ordering of the North Mining and magic Dreams of Lapland''s gold The enduring allure of minerals and the Underworld Chapter 3: Houses, Land and Soil Dwellings, people and the cosmos in the North The introduction of the house Pottery, semi-subterranean houses and cultural transformation Early pottery, cultivation and place making Houses and the changing relationship with the underworld Clay work as a means of restructuring human-environment relations Living in an inspirited world The inspirited house Chapter 4: Forests and Hunting The forest in northern landscapes and mindscapes Engaging with trees Humans and animals in the north Seducing the prey Elk-headed staffs - symbols of Stone Age clans? Sceptres of the shaman? The Bear - the ''Golden King of the Forest'' PART II: SEA Chapter 5: Coastal landscapes and the sea Living with the sea The two mediterraneans Engaging with changing coastal environments The temporality of Baltic coastal landscapes Cairns in northern coastal landscapes Otherworldly islands Coastal mazes in the North Chapter 6: Boats and waterways The mystery object from a Lapland bog Water and the Otherworld in a northern context Travelling as a spirit fish Blue elks and flying boats Solar boats in razors and rock art Boats for the dead Chapter 7: River mouths and central places The real and mythical rivers River mouths as liminal spaces and central places Mythical kingdoms in later prehistory The ''trader kingdom'' of the birkarls Market places PART III: SKY Chapter 8: Birds and cosmology Migratory birds and changing seasons Birds as persons Birds as guides and soul-birds Cranes and dwarfs Devil''s swans Solar swans? Chapter 9: The sun, light and fire People of the Sun Amber and Apollo Worshipping the northern sun The marriage of fire and earth Fire and the hearth in northern cultures Fire and transformation Strange lights in the Northern Sky Chapter 10: Epilogue A world full of life The North and the South ing with trees Humans and animals in the north Seducing the prey Elk-headed staffs - symbols of Stone Age clans? Sceptres of the shaman? The Bear - the ''Golden King of the Forest'' PART II: SEA Chapter 5: Coastal landscapes and the sea Living with the sea The two mediterraneans Engaging with changing coastal environments The temporality of Baltic coastal landscapes Cairns in northern coastal landscapes Otherworldly islands Coastal mazes in the North Chapter 6: Boats and waterways The mystery object from a Lapland bog Water and the Otherworld in a northern context Travelling as a spirit fish Blue elks and flying boats Solar boats in razors and rock art Boats for the dead Chapter 7: River mouths and central places The real and mythical rivers River mouths as liminal spaces and central places Mythical kingdoms in later prehistory The ''trader kingdom'' of the birkarls Market places PART III: SKY Chapter 8: Birds and cosmology Migratory birds and changing seasons Birds as persons Birds as guides and soul-birds Cranes and dwarfs Devil''s swans Solar swans? 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Chapter 9: The sun, light and fire People of the Sun Amber and Apollo Worshipping the northern sun The marriage of fire and earth Fire and the hearth in northern cultures Fire and transformation Strange lights in the Northern Sky Chapter 10: Epilogue A world full of life The North and the South amp;lt;B> Chapter 9: The sun, light and fire People of the Sun Amber and Apollo Worshipping the northern sun The marriage of fire and earth Fire and the hearth in northern cultures Fire and transformation Strange lights in the Northern Sky Chapter 10: Epilogue A world full of life The North and the South.