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:
Vådeskudt
| Dokument id: | 2144 |
| Registreringsår: | 1903 |
| Publikationsår: | 1905 |
| Arkiv navn: | |
| Fortæller: | Usaqqaq ? |
| Nedskriver: | Rasmussen, Knud |
| Mellem-person: | |
| Indsamler: | Rink, H. |
| Titel: | Vådeskudt |
| Publikationstitel: | Nye Mennesker |
| Tidsskrift: | |
| Omfang: | ss. 92 - 94 |
| Lokalisering: | Avanersuaq / Thule |
| Note: | |
Håndskrift har ikke kunnet identificeres.
Resumé: Usaqqaq fortæller nyt om Agpalerk / Appaleq, en ældre mand, der efter flere dages jagt sammen med en anden kom til at skyde sig selv i hovedet med en gammel bøsse han havde købt af hvalfangerne. Jagtkammeraten og App. var skiltes for at jage hver sit sted, og kammeraten hjalp ikke den døende App. hjem, da han traf ham undervejs. Han var også for træt til at følge App.s kone derud. Hun gik ud for at dække liget til, men han var endnu levende. Han måtte endnu en gang overnatte i kulden, denne gang dog med et par skind over sig. Næste dag kom to mand og fik ham båret hjem. Han havde helst blot villet dø, men hans kone insisterede på at få ham hjem. Nu lå han hen, stinkende af sine sår.
Hist.: Historisk fortælling om manglende kundskaber vedr. brug af bøsser. Især de gamle klandres i indledeningen for uvidenhed desangående. | |
"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.