Wonderful trip north of the Arctic Circle during the first two weeks

of June. Twenty-four hours of sunlight every day!

Pétur Snæland and his wife Vala Kristjánsson.

It was because of Pétur that I ended up in Scandinavian.

Picture taken at their country cabin in Iceland.

Professors Ørnulv Vorren and Harald Gaski at the

world's northernmost university, the University of

Tromsø in Northern Norway.

Ancient rock carving of a reindeer outside of Tromsø.

Real, live reindeer along the road.

They're all tame though still a bit shy.

Rock carving of a skier at Alta, Norway.

Between four and five thousand years old.

Christian Stannow trying to figure out just where

Eyvind Jonsson grew up in Northern Sweden.

Michael Svonni who teaches Sámi language and linguistics

at the University of Umeå in Sweden. At his home

outside of Kiruna, Sweden.

One of the many fish Nils Magne Knutsen and I

caught at his cabin outside of Tromsø. This one

a 25# cod. We also caught coalfish and Nils Magne

cooked up a wonderful fish dinner.

Here's Nils Magne enjoying a piece of rhubarb cobbler

at his cabin. Plenty of rhubarb growing there as well

as strawberries. And one can see that it was quite

warm in the sun!