Raisa

Raisa follows the Reisa River through a wooded valley to Reisafjord in northern Troms. The valley and its uplands formed part of a landscape used by Sámi herders moving reindeer between inland winter pastures and the coast. During the eighteenth century migrants from northern Finland and the Torne valley settled in Reisadalen, making it an important centre of Kven settlement. They brought woodland practices including the burning of tar, which became a commodity for trade.