It was many summers ago and many winters have passed since the southerner visited us. It has been so long a time that my memory is a bit fuzzy. Well, a young man came wandering up to our country, this was when we still called our land ours. This man’s name was Carl and he he told us that monno kona­kasa ålmai , I am the king’s man. He also said i mon håla sami giela , I do not speak the Sami language. He also asked us about what our words are for penis and the word for the womens membrum genitale mulie­rum . I must say, we thought him a strange man.”