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Oral Literature

Historical Greenlandic Inuit oral literature and folk-tale collections, preserved with collector, editor, translator, and storyteller chains.

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Texts

Eskimo Folk-Tales — Knud Rasmussen — W. Worster translationKnud Rasmussen's complete Greenlandic Inuit tale collection in W. Worster's 1921 English rendering, with regional source note.Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo — Henry RinkHenry Rink's complete 1875 Greenlandic Inuit ethnography and tale collection: seven chapters on Inuit life, language, society, and religion, followed by 150 numbered traditional tales.