ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where it finds images of Nordic landscapes influenced by the colonialism of the end of the medieval period. It aims to regain power over the aesthetics of the landscape by using modernist tools to express and nurture indigenous spiritual perspectives on and with the land. With regard to Nordic landscapes, such a perspective leads to explore the significance of the idea of "landscape" and its discursive and pictorial representations, as these are always deeply intertwined with processes of negotiating power. Another way of approaching research on the "new North" would be a differentiated investigation of what changes in climate have done to the culture of the North. Especially with regard to indigenous populations and their relationship to land, it is important to regard landscape images as essential for the study of space, place, and religion. Sacred architecture represented, in Olwig's terms, the heart of the landscape's body and politics.
