Joik

Earliest record: 1673Johannes Schefferus, Lapponia (Frankfurt, 1673), English 1674: citing Samuel Rheen, the drummer at the drum rite 'sings a song, called by them Joiike', while those present sing with him; the book also prints two love songs taken down from Olaus Sirma.

Schefferus's Lapponia (1673) printed two love songs from the Sámi Olaus Sirma; a line of one became Longfellow's refrain 'A boy's will is the wind's will'.

James Taft Hatfield, 'Longfellow's “Lapland Song”', PMLA 45:4 (1930), 1188–1192; Johannes Scheffer, The History of Lapland (Oxford, 1674)

A Sámi song form that does not describe its subject but is held to embody it directly.

Sources4 sources

Primary source

Johannes Scheffer, The History of Lapland (English translation of Lapponia, Frankfurt 1673), 1674, Oxford, 1674; chapter on the drum rite (citing Samuel Rheen), and chapter on Lapland contracts and marriages (the songs 'Kulnasatz' and 'Orra Moor')The earliest printed record of the word joik, and the printing of two love songs taken down from Olaus Sirma, including the line 'A youths desire is the desire of wind'.
the drummer sings a song, called by them Joiike
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 'My Lost Youth', in Birds of Passage, 1858, refrain of each stanzaThe poem's refrain, introduced as 'a verse of a Lapland song'.
A boy's will is the wind's will

Scholarship

James Taft Hatfield, 'Longfellow's “Lapland Song”', PMLA 45:4, 1930, pp. 1188–1192; doi 10.2307/457834That the 'Lapland song' quoted in Longfellow's My Lost Youth comes from Sirma's song printed by Schefferus in Lapponia (Frankfort 1673), with an English translation at Oxford in 1674.
first taken down from a native Laplander, Olaus Matthiae Sirma
Dan Lundberg, 'Sami joik', Svenskt visarkiv, 2013, 7 February 2013, section 'Joiking a person or animal'That a joik is performed as its reference object rather than about it, and that personal joiks act as musical names, sung to welcome a person at Karl Tirén's recording sessions.
A performer does not joik about a particular person or animal