Kayakmen: Tales of Greenland’s Seal Hunters (Adventures in New Lands)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface by Signe Rink
A Fishing Trip by Kristoffer Nielsen
Hunting Adventures by Aparavigssuak
A Dangerous Mail Journey Over the Ice by Casper Nielsen
My Pilot Trip with the Americans by David Danielsen
On Incidents where I Have Been Endangered by Karl Olrik
Accounts from Kagssimiut by Peter Motzfeldt
Adventures and Observations on Things I Have Experienced by Petrus Lynge
On the Sinking of Our Umiaq by Ignatius
What Happened One Time to the Seal Hunters at Kangamiut by Jens Kreuzmann
The Narration of a Holsteinborger on One of His Hunting Trips by Jens Baggeson
On the Danger that Amase's Son Joel was put in Around the Time He Started to Hunt with a Bladder by Ungaralak
On the Kivitut Question by Hans Rasmussen
A Bear Story by J.H.