This Festschrift is dedicated to Professor of High North Studies Jens Petter Nielsen on his 70th anniversary, in celebration of his diverse and fruitful professional life as a historian. It includes 25 articles written by the celebrant's colleagues and colleborating partners from the Nordic countries and Russia. Thematically, the articles cover topical researc ares within Jens Petter Nielsen's own authorship, northern regions, and bilateral relations between the northernmost states of Europe. Summaries in english follows each article.
...mapping places in the world that have at some point been considered "where East and West meet" or "crossroads between East and West." The length of the list says less about the places in question and more about the flimsiness of East and West as cultural constructs. You can go east or west forever, but you'll never reach the other. East and west are diametrically opposite one from the other and irreconcilably put apart by God. Likewise, the sin-cleansing precious blood of Jesus Christ has washed away our sins as far as the east is from the west. How far is east from west? They never meet! Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border nor Breed nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth! Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgmen...