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Eskimo Folktales, by Unknown
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Title: Eskimo Folktales
Author: Unknown
Editor: Knud Rasmussen
Translator: W. Worster
Release Date: May 23, 2009 [EBook #28932]
Language: English
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Eskimo Folk-Tales
Collected by
Knud Rasmussen
Edited and rendered into English by
W. Worster
With illustrations by native Eskimo artists
Gyldendal 11 Burleigh St., Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2 Copenhagen Christiania 1921
INTRODUCTION
These stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer.
No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo origin; his childhood was spent in Greenland, and to Greenland he returned again and again, studying, exploring, crossing the desert of the inland ice, making unique collections of material, tangible and otherwise, from all parts of that vast and little-known land, and his achieveme