Introduction
The main purpose of this database of Greenlandic stories is to make the searching in written down oral stories easier. The approximately 2280 stories in the base I consider to represent their time in the different regions of Greenland, and it is my intention that the database will be extended with further collections by the help of the users. All stories, that are already translated into Danish, are only added as summaries and can not be used as source; you have to find the original source - preferably the original source in Greenlandic if it still exists.
The majority of the other stories, that means the handwritten and the few printed in Greenlandic, are translated into Danish. Senior lecturer Christian Berthelsen has translated most of the stories as well as Apollo Lynge, Grethe Lindenhann and Signe Åsblom have translated stories.
You will find missing parts of text in the translations. This is due to either unreadable handwriting, strange dialects or if the storyteller (which in some cases is the same person who has written down the story) did not grasp the whole story from beginning to end. In such cases you have to return to the original source, often the handwritten version, if you know how to read the Greenlandic language. If this is not the case, please note this insecurity in your text.
Birgitte Sonne
Søgning:
Bueskytten Kunuk
| Dokument id: | 1553 |
| Registreringsår: | 1903 |
| Publikationsår: | 1925 |
| Arkiv navn: | |
| Fortæller: | Manissoq (Manigsoq) |
| Nedskriver: | Rasmussen, Knud |
| Mellem-person: | |
| Indsamler: | Rasmussen, Knud |
| Titel: | Bueskytten Kunuk |
| Publikationstitel: | Myter og Sagn fra Grønland, III |
| Tidsskrift: | |
| Omfang: | side 94 - 96 |
| Lokalisering: | Avanersuaq / Thule |
| Note: | |
Håndskrift har ikke kunnet identificeres.
Første gang trykt i Rasmussen, K.: Nye Mennesker. København, Kristiania: Gyldendal, 1905:96 - 99.
Resumé: Fortællingen skildrer forskellige metoder til renjagt og slutter med Kunuks langvarige, ihærdige forfølgelse af en rentyr, der undervejs slår følge med en renko med kalv. Han dræber tyren og koen, dier koen, falder udmattet i søvn, vågner op, da kalven vil til yveret, stikker den ned, flænser tyren og sover i dens skind, da jagtkammeraten, Pualuna endelig når frem.
Hist.: Denne Kunuk er ikke identisk med vest- og østgrønlændernes sagnhelt, men en historisk person. Inughuit / polareskimoerne lærte at jage rener med bue og pil af indvandrerne fra Baffinland omkr. 1860. Senere fik man bøsser. Hvalfangere og ekspeditioner jagede også rener. I 1910'erne var renerne udryddet i Thule-området. Vedr. indvandringen: Ulloriaq, Inuutersuaq: Beretningen om Qillarsuaq ... [Kbh. Det grønlandske Selskab 1985 (ikke registreret). Men søg på: Petersen, Robert, 2000: Om grønlandske slægtssagaer. Tidsskriftet Grønland, ss. 299 - 311. | |
"Greenlandic Myths & Stories" is compiled by Birgitte Sonne, born. 4. Jan 1936, MA in sociology of religion, retired in 2006 from Eskimology and Arctic Studies, Dep. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. She still carries out research.
Contact: bbsonne81@gmail.com.