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Greenlanders gained reliable social entertainment from the oral
retelling of their legends. With the only printed material
available at the time being of Christian origin, interest grew for
Greenlandic stories, leading to the formation of Atuagagdliutit-the
first, and still published, periodical in the country. The stories
collected in Kayakmen originally appeared there. This text
represents a firsthand account of the civilization of Greenlanders
depicting a true picture of their age.
First English translation of this 19th century novel tracing the
relationship between traditional Greenlandic life and the
interaction with the culture of their Danish colonizers. These
first hand accounts of Greenlanders have rarely been recorded.
Written in 1887, with exquisite poetic detail, the dynamics driving
ritual, domestic affairs and women's place in society are described
as never before. Signe Rink (nee Miller, 1836-1909) was born and
raised in Greenland. Eden of The North was written after Rink
returned to Denmark in 1883, and was followed by two more novels in
1886 and 1902. She remains the first female interpreter of
Greenlandic culture and maintains a poetic style only achieved by
the deepest of empathies developed after many years of living and
working among Inuit as a woman and a scientist. L.S. Johanson was
born in San Diego,California. L.S. later moved to Scandinavia where
she lived on a small farm in western Denmark for 25 years. As an
interpreter, translator, and teacher, she studied languages and
linguistics at Aalborg University and Aarhus University in Denmark
(Cand.Phil., Cand.Mag.) She has been translating fiction and
non-fiction professionally in the U.S. and Scandinavia for over two
decades. She currently lives, writes, and works in Vermont.
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