Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari
Jákop the Little Forest Troll
The Secret of the Northern Lights

Jákop the Little Forest Troll – The Secret of the Northern Lights is a children’s book about Sámi mythological creatures and powers. An omniscient narrator begins this book’s story with the main characters, Jákop the Little Forest Troll and Hidden Fairy Girl Biggá, in her local forest where they are staying, a short distance from the great silver birch, where Jákop the Little Forest Troll lives. With this book, the author wants to provide the opportunity for all readers to participate in exciting Sámi stories where Sámi mythology in particular takes a central role.

Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari

Mary Ailonieida Sombán Mari
Ánde Somby

Marry Ailonieida Sombán Mari was born in Tana and grew up in Sirbmá. She is a well-known Sámi writer and cultural worker and now lives in Tromsø. Marry debuted in 1976 with the book Ámmul ja alit oarbmælli (Ámmul and the Blue Cousin) – notable for Sámi literature as the first children’s book written in Sámi. The book has since become a Sámi classic. She has written poetry, short stories, novels, and other fiction and nonfiction texts for adults.

Other titles

–The Rainbow Kingdom (2022)
– Bizi, The Little Reindeer Calf –
The Flying Pilot (2016)
– Jákop the Little Forest Troll: Visiting with Biggá the Fairy (2023)

Foreign rights

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Edited March 09, 2026 by Davvi Girji