lut Kangermio, 1822-1869

About this book

"Around the year 1858 a skil[l]ful hunter, Aron, at the settlement of KangeK outside the mouth of Godthaabsfjord became so ill of tuberculosis that he was no longer able to go out in a kayak. As a means of passing the time he then devoted himself to perpetuating on paper the old oral traditions in texts, drawings, woodcuts and small watercolours ... The first thing he turned out was the work 'about the Norsemen': K'avdlunâtsianik ... One hundred years after Aron's death, the material which occupied his mind has once more been assembled as a whole in these pages. Greenland publishes her counterpart to the sagas of Iceland concerning events during the Norse era - a living proof that the Skraellings - with the help of a doomed sealer, but a great artist - remain the final victors in the struggle with the Norsemen"--Preface [English translation] (unnumbered page 4).