This lecture in the Fredagsmøde series looks at how missionary Hans Egede described the people of Greenland. Egede returned home from Greenland in 1736, after fifteen years there, and continued his work from Denmark through two major publications about the Greenlandic people, their circumstances and his own experiences.
Alexander Matchona K. Mkandawire reads excerpts from Egede's public and private writings and compares how each portrays the Greenlanders. The talk aims to shed light on key features of Greenlandic-Danish history and on how it has shaped Protestant Christian ideas of what it means to be human.
