Kayakmen: Tales of Greenlands Seal Hunters [Paperback]

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 Atuagagdliutitthe 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.Transcribed directly from hunters, the stories described here relate adventures in the hazardous environment of Greenland in the mid-nineteenth centuryPreface by Signe RinkA Fishing Trip by Kristoffer NielsenHunting Adventures by AparavigssuakA Dangerous Mail Journey Over the Ice by Casper NielsenMy Pilot Trip with the Americans by David DanielsenOn Incidents where I Have Been Endangered by Karl OlrikAccounts from Kagssimiut by Peter MotzfeldtAdventures and Observations on Things I Have Experienced by Petrus LyngeOn the Sinking of Our Umiaq by IgnatiusWhat Happened One Time to the Seal Hunters at Kangamiut by Jens KreuzmannThe Narration of a Holsteinborger on One of His Hunting Trips by Jens BaggesonOn the Danger that Amase's Son Joel was put in Around the Time He Started to Hunt with a Bladder by UngaralakOn the Kivitut Question by Hans RasmussenA Bear Story by J.H.