The Northern Lights Route

The Pomor Trade

Kildin, 16th century The market place on the island Kildin, showing sami, Western Europeans and Russians exchanging goods, in the end of the 16th century, more than a century before the real "pomor" trade had begun. From van Linschoten, 1601.

© University Library of Tromsø - 1999.

The Northern Lights Route is part of The Council of Europe Cultural Routes. The Cultural Routes are an invitation to Europeans to wander the paths and explore the places where the unity and diversity of our European identity were forged.