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Elements of the Greenland Tales and Traditions.
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Next to the language the folk-lore probably will become the
most important source of knowledge that may throw light on the
obscure history of the Eskimo race. Some instruction therefore as
to making use of them for this purpose, perhaps may be appropriate
here. It is chiefly through the tales or legends that any sort of
knowledge, either of religious or what may be considered historical
nature, is handed down through generations by the Eskimo. For
this reason it is not to be wondered at, that certain elements, more
or less repeatedly occurring in the tales and partly applied by the
story-tellers as interpolations, are frequently met with, and that a
discrimination of the traditions on the whole as to the importance
of their contents may be found troublesome. The following selection
is only made for facilitating the comparison of the Greenland
traditions with those which still might be obtained from other
Eskimo countries and the neigbouring nations. Consequently it is
restricted to what appears to be most popular among the
storytellers and characteristic to their sphere of ideas, comprizing partly
some elements, that are repeated in various tales, partly others
which are peculiar to some of the most favourite or most widely
known tales. The numbers subjoined refer to the headings in the
English edition of Eskimo Tales and Traditions (1875).
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Strong and mighty men, first rate seal-hunters. No equals in
kayaking far out to sea in all weathers. Thickness of their kayak
paddles. Dexterity and strength bearing against the influence of
old age.
Their great fame, strangers coming from afar to offer them a
match. Some of them well disposed and modest, others wicked
persons and manslayers. The kayakers of the surrounding stations
meeting to deliberate on the punishment of the latter (22, 36, 59,
60, 66, 67, 70, 85, 98).
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