Show folk lore preserved few outsiders have mastered the speech of the lapps these hardy folk who inhabit the arctic sections of norway sweden and finland subsisting on the antlered steeds in sonta sonin claus stables but there will be ri little if any of the tongue lost to the world in general thanks to the efforts of johann thurrl who Is perpetuating the language of his race in fantastic writings an old lapp of seventy five aye summers ersi thurrl hns has been able to put 11 ll ab folk lore into writing for 11 first time |