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The Native Greenlander - Folktales of Greenland (Paperback)
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The Native Greenlander - Folktales of Greenland (Paperback)
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Loot Price R457
Discovery Miles 4 570
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This volume of folk tales collected by Heinrich Rink, by native
Greenlanders, is the translation of the first book printed in
Greenland. Rink began his career as an administrator based at the
Moravian mission at Godthaab, on the southwest coast of Greenland.
He used the press to produce both official notices and literary
works. Rink was determined to collect legends and folk tales of
Greenland natives and publish them, an ambition achieved in these
volumes, published over a five year span. Rink collected oral tales
from throughout Greenland, although mainly in the southern area he
administered. The remarkable oral tradition of the Inuit,
unaffected by few outside influences, is traced through their
history on the land. Many of the stories describe the clashes
between the Norse and the Inuit. Rink recognized that some of the
tales existed in the realm of pure myth, but that others
represented recollections, passed from one generation to the next,
of events of many centuries earlier. Translated from Danish, this
is the first English translation of these stories. Illustrations
are by Aron of Kangeq, a sealer and walrus hunter who lived at the
Moravian mission at the small trading station of Kangeq. His
illustrations of the oral storytelling tradition have gained status
as a symbol of the new artistic tradition developed in Greenland in
the mid-19th century.
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