Op het internet zijn twee websites te vinden die een groot aantal verhalen van de Inuit op Groenland weergeven. Het is de moeite waard om eens enkele verhalen te lezen, evenals de introductie en uitleg van de verzamelaars van deze verhalen. Het betreft de volgende Engelstalige websites “Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo” en “Eskimo Folk-tales”.
Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
by Henry Rink [1875]
Includes ethnography and folklore of the Inuit.
Zie deze link: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/tte/index.htm
Eskimo Folk-tales
collected by Knud Rasmussen, translated and edited by W. Worster [1921]
Tales of the supernatural from the far north
Zie deze link: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/inu/eft/index.htm
Toelichting
De volgende toelichting op bovengenoemde sites vind je op “Sacred text archives” (http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm).
“Inuit is the term preferred for speaking of the people commonly known as Eskimo—the word Eskimo being derived from a derogatory term (meaning “eaters of raw flesh”) used by the Algonquin people of North America. The Inuit culture is possibly the most geographically extensive of all traditional lifeways, showing an astonishing homogeneity of language, beliefs, and technologies over more than 5000 miles of coastal territory extending from eastern Siberia to Greenland. Ethnologically, the Inuit are considered to be distinct from the other native inhabitants of the Americas, being more closely related to the Siberian peoples. Shamanism also plays a very large role in Inuit culture, with tales of shape-shifting and super-powerful angakut abounding.”
