Jokkmokk Winter Market: The Sámi Gathering Above the Arctic Circle

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Every year on the first Thursday of February, a town of a few thousand people north of the Arctic Circle swells to tens of thousands, in temperatures that regularly sit at minus thirty, because the Jokkmokk winter market has been the great gathering of the Sámi world since 1605 and four centuries of cold has never once been reason enough to cancel. This is Swedish Lapland — Sápmi, in the Sámi tongue, the land that stretches across the top of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia — and Jokkmokk’s market is its oldest continuous appointment.

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Jokkmokk Winter Market: The Sámi Gathering Above the Arctic Circle