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Article: On narrative expectations: Greenlandic oral traditions about the cultural encounter between Inuit and Norsemen.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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AMONG ARCHEOLOGISTS as well as Eskimologists, the Greenlandic stories about cultural contact and hostilities between Inuit and Norsemen have long been disputed. Today no one believes that Inuit attacks on the Norsemen were the sole reason for the disappearance of both the Western (Nuuk/Godthab) and Eastern (Qaqortoq/Julianehab) Settlements. Recent research rejects these stories as sources of insight into the Middle Ages, though discussion of the narrative expectations associated with them and the role they play is important in understanding the Inuit storytelling tradition. And though they cannot be considered as sources of historical insight into the medieval encounters ...
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