Titel: SV: Courtehou / Korthou
Skrivet av: Stefan Simander skrivet 2023-06-20, 05:26
Words of a Lost Language Around 1771 the informant at Tolvfors Iron Works (see Fig. 3 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-022-00659-2#Fig3)) in County Gästrikland and Carl Linneaus’ Uppsala University student, Per Holmberger, wrote a dictionary of the Lapponum Mendicantium (Soknlapparnas språk in Swedish). Lapponum Mendicantium means “beggar Sámi” and soknlappar alludes to the system of ethnically determined indenture instituted by Queen Dowager Hedwig Eleonora.
The group of Sámi interviewed by Holmberger spoke a Sámi language locally adapted to the lower Dalälven region in central Sweden, identifiable by the words for regional fauna and flora.
Court records from Tolvfors Iron Works in 1696 mention a conflict over a debt in which a Catherine Cortheu claims a sum of money from Anders Persson Lapp, the husband of her dead sister Anna Philipsdotter Chortheu—a conflict originating with the transaction of a piece of land in 1668 (GD 40, 1696 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-022-00659-2#ref-CR1):916-917). GD, Gästriklands domböcker 40, 1696, Häradsrätternas domböcker, Svea hovrätts arkiv, Riksarkivet, Stockholm. The husband was clearly a Sámi married into a Dutch/Walloon family, which reveals that there were already sedentary Sámi at Tolvfors Iron Works a hundred years before Holmbergers’ visit.