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Herrn Hans Egede, Missionärs und Bischofes in Grönland, Beschreibung und Natur-Geschichte von Grönland, übersetzet von D. Joh. Ge. Krünitz.
Berlin: August Mylius, 1763
Physical Description: ix [i.e. xi], [1], 237, [3] p. , 11 leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., folded map; 18 cm. (8vo)
Call number: G763/ E29h
Accession number: 09702
Notes: A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, p. 173-180, is without music and gives a description of the performance.
"Norwegische Wörter in der Grönländischen Sprache", p. 180-193, gives a small glossary of Kalâtdlisut dialect words as well as a discussion of grammar; the three articles of faith and the Lord's prayer are also translated into the Greenlandic language. Translation, by Johann Georg Krünitz, of: Description et histoire naturelle du Groenland, first printed in Copenhagen and Geneva, 1763, which is itself a translation, by Jean Baptiste Des Roches de Parthenay, of: Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration, eller, Naturel-historie, printed in Copenhagen, 1741, but which first appeared in a pirated edition in Copenhagen, 1729.
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Languages: Inuit-Inupiaq / Eskimo / Kalâtdlisut
Genre: Catechisms and Creeds / Grammar / Vocabulary
Region: Arctic
