Lapland Journey

Linnaeus had written at the end of the seventeenth century:
Ovid's description of the Silver Age is still applicable to the native inhabitants of Lapland. Their soil is not wounded by the plough, nor is the iron din of arms to be heard, neither have mankind found their way into the bowels of the earth, nor do they engage in wars to define its boundaries.

His words are true to-day, when the southern boundary of Lapland is the Artic Circle and when all Lapland is divided into four parts - Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian.
(Halliday Sutherland 1938).