Vierra (a bunkh of hay used in shoes)

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In the traditional Saami leather ??shoe/boot (gállot), instead of (or sometimes in addition to) socks, a lining of straw (North Saami gámasuoinnit) was used for comfort and warmth. The best straw for lining boots was obtained from sedge (Carex lapponica). The sedge was collected in late summer for the winter, and the dried straw was twisted into balls or ??into rings in which the balls were kept. The name for a ball of boot leather in North Saami is (suoidne)vierra, and corresponding forms are found in most of the Saami languages (e.g. South Saami vïere, Lule Saami vierra, Inari Saami vierä). In North Saami there is a variant form fierra, which also means rib of a sledge . The word also has the latter meaning in several other Saami languages, and in Lule Saami the corresponding form also means ring of a ski pole basket or roundvalley .

In the sense of ball of hay for boot lining the word has been related to the Norwegian dialect word kvere a bunch of twigs for scrubbing , but most probably all these meanings come from the sense arched, round, rolling , which would relate the words to the Saami verb fierrat to roll, fall and its Finnish equivalents vieriä to roll and vierrä ?? Also related are North Saami fierran a rolling bar of sand; an expanse of sand carried by water , South Saami vïere a steep slope , Lule Saami vierra a ridge and Skolt Saami viörr a ridge, ??tieva (corresponding to the Finnish vieremä a river bank or hillside , vieri side, edge ). <P> {{Kuvalinkki|p> <P> [[Tiedosto:p> |thumb|600px|{{{2}}}]]