Lierne

Lierne lies among the lakes and wooded mountains of the Norwegian–Swedish border country. Its principal waterways flow east towards Sweden, a geographical fact that complicated the settlement of the frontier between two kingdoms with competing claims to the mountain districts. The district was also part of a wider Sámi homeland across which people and reindeer moved with the seasons.

Following negotiations at Strömstad, the border treaty of 1751 settled a long dispute between Denmark-Norway and Sweden, leaving Lierne on the Norwegian side. An accompanying agreement, the Lapp Codicil, regulated Sámi rights across the newly defined boundary. The line divided a landscape of established use, but the agreement acknowledged the need for Sámi communities to continue crossing it with their herds.