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
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| Dokument id: | 2008 |
| Registreringsår: | 1936 |
| Publikationsår: | 1993 |
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| Fortæller: | Paola (Paoda) |
| Nedskriver: | Victor, Paul-Émile |
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| Titel: | Inden titel |
| Publikationstitel: | La civilisation du phoque, II |
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| Omfang: | s. 383 |
| Lokalisering: | Kangerlussuatsiaq: Tasiilaq / Angmagssalik / Ammassalik |
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Hele værket: Victor, P.E. & J. Robert-Lamblin: La Civilisation du phoque, t.I:Jeux, gestes et techniques des Eskimo d'Ammassalik. A. Collin - R. Chabaud, 1989, 312 p.; t.II:Légendes, rites et croyances des Eskimo d'Ammassalik. R. Chabaud, Paris, 1993, 424p.
Resumé: Som reaktion på en fortællingen om Kara's fars tupilakhund (søg: Victor 1993, s. 380 - 382) giver Paoda et par lignende forklaringer på relativt nylige dødsfald til bedste. Alle Kristinas børn døde som små, et par tvillinger, en søn og til slut en datter. De havde pebet som små hundehvalpe og mens datteren lå døende havde det lydt som en hund under gulvfliserne. Årsagen var at Kristina havde ladet sin hjælpeånd tage hvad den ville i hendes cache de vivre (vagina?) som betaling for at kurere hende for en opsvulmet hånd. Hun måtte have været en heks. Det samme måtte Iwa, James' kone være, fordi man kort før hendes død havde hørt en ravn skrige hendes navn ude på isen.
Hist.: Skønt det ikke er egentlige fortællinger viser disse to forklaringer på faktiske dødsfald, som man finder unormale, hvordan og i hvilken fortolkningsramme fortællinger bliver til.
Kommentar: Seksuelle forhold til hjælpeånder, der forekommer i flere østgrønlandske fortællinger, kan tydeligvis have fatale konsekvenser. | |
"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.