High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fragments of Lappish Mythology is the detailed documented account of the Sami religious beliefs and mythology during the mid-19th century. It was written between 1838-1845 by Swedish minister Lars Levi Læstadius, but was not published until 1997 in Swedish, Finnish in 2000 and in English in 2002. The book was originally written for the French funded La Recherche Expedition of 1838-1840, but was lost and soon forgotten for many decades thereafter.