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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 Swedish Sami, who aroused great attention among her contemporaries because of her height. She was 210 cm (6 feet 10.7 inches) tall. 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.
Åke Lundgren om bakgrunden till Långa lappflickanMattias Olofssons performance om Stor-Stina
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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 Swedish Sami, who aroused great attention among her contemporaries because of her height. She was 210 cm (6 feet 10.7 inches) tall. 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
* Stina Kajsa i Wilhelmina Stålberg, Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor (1864)Åke Lundgren om bakgrunden till Långa lappflickan
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Further reading
* {{Authority control Swedish Sámi people 1819 births 1854 deaths Sideshow performers People with gigantism Deaths from gangrene 19th-century Sámi people