Stor-Stina
Kristina Katarina "Stina Kajsa" Larsdotter (19 January 1819, in Brännäs, Malå – 27 May 1854), known as Långa lappflickan (The Tall Laponia Girl), The Lapland Giantess, and Stor-Stina (Big Stina), was a Sámi woman from Sweden, who aroused great attention among her contemporaries because of her height. She presumably suffered from a case of gigantism and never stopped growing, her last known height was 218 centimetres (7 feet 2 inches) shortly before her death. From 1837 onward, she toured Sweden, Great Britain, Denmark, France and Russia exhibiting herself for money under the stage name "The Lapland Giantess - Tallest Woman in the World".
Stor-Stina eventually returned to her family in Brännäs in Malå. She died of gangrene.
She is portrayed in the 1981 novel Långa lappflickan by Åke Lundgren, and in the 2012 novel Rekviem för en vanskapt by Mattias Hagberg.
References
[edit]- Stina Kajsa i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)
- Åke Lundgren Sápmis jättinna (The Lapland giantess)
- Mattias Olofssons performance om Stor-Stina [dead link]
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