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A description of Greenland. Shewing ... the ancient and modern inhabitants.
London: Printed for C. Hitch...; S. Austen...; and J. Jackson, 1745
Physical Description:
Call number: G745/ E29d
Accession number: 35326
Notes: A Greenlandic song, composed by Frederick Christian, p. 155-162, is without music and gives a description of the performance.
"Of their language", p. 163-[174], 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 of: Det gamle Grønlands nye perlustration, eller Naturel-historie, og beskrivelse over det gamle Grønlands situation, luft, temperament og bestaffenhed, first printed in an enlarged edition 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
