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[13 Jun 2008|04:41pm] |
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Hello! I'm interested about your nation, your language and culture. I belong to the finno-ugric organization in Russia. We are very interested about the way you preserve and develop your identity and culture. I would like to obtain an interview with someone who works in the field of preserving and developing of your identity, culture and the way of life
I am much obliged to you
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| Røde Fjord Alpenglow |
[28 Mar 2007|11:20am] |
Røde Fjord Alpenglow II • East Greenland • September 2006
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| Noa Lake, E. Greenland |
[26 Jan 2007|08:54am] |
This is Noa Lake, on Ymer Ø in the Kong Oscar fjord complex, last September during a photographic workshop. I was constantly really taken by the bits of East Greenland I was able to visit, what a tremendous landscape.
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| Translating my Livejournal page |
[18 Oct 2006|03:39pm] |
Hey, I'm translating my Livejournal into Kalaallisut and therefore I want to know what the following word(s) (groups) are in Kalaallisut:
- User info;
- Memories;
- Friends;
- Archive;
- My deviantART page (I'm adding my own deviantART page to the link section, so)
My Greenlandic isn't that good and I hope you'll be able to translate it.
Thanks in advance. :')
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| anthem |
[10 Oct 2006|09:22am] |
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Hi! I've been searching lately for the Greenlandic national anthem, Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit, in MP3 with voices singing the anthem. But I found only MIDIs and notes for that. Has anyone got a version with voices? I'd be very thankful for any kind of help.
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| Greenlandic translation |
[13 Sep 2006|07:27pm] |
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I'd be very grateful indeed if someone here is able to translate the phrase "There are no people living in Greenland" into Greenlandic for me. I need hardly say that it's for a bit of a joke, given the context.
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| Help me, please |
[03 Aug 2006|04:57pm] |
I search for my way to the North. I do not want to explain why I need to leave on the North, but believe me, I have reason.
Therefore I search any work for myself and for my husband in Alaska, Antarctica, Antarctic Region, Greenland is the best way. Our trades don’t very popular in the north: I the system administrator, my husband the artist. But we are ready to do any work.
Write to me, please if you knows organization where helps me. It is very important.
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| Music? |
[11 Apr 2006|08:23pm] |
Does anybody have any Greenlandic songs they wouldn't mind sharing? Excerpts, clips, full songs, anything?
Much thanks!
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[04 Nov 2005|05:57pm] |
people of Greenland i salute you!
i collect postcards sent from all over the world
and i still don't have a postcard from your island
i appreciate if someone can send me one
in case you can help me i post my mailing address
Pavel Tsapyuk
"Telecom-Expert" company
office 903, building 18
Yunnatov street
Moscow, Russia 127083
have a great time, brothers and sisters!
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[25 Oct 2005|06:07pm] |
Just thought I'd say hi. Listened to the song that one of the previous posters uploaded, and I was wondering if anyone has a translation or transcription of the lyrics, etc. I'd be curious to see a written representation of what I'm hearing, since there are some rather interesting sounds being sung. :)
As for any introductory things (don't know if you do this on this community), I guess you could say that I've got an interest in those who live in the north.
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[27 Jun 2005|01:20am] |
I've finally gotten around to uploading one of Tupaarnaq's songs. It's called Hingitat, and you can download it by right clicking here -> and choosing to "save target as."
PS. Thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rube for helping me to convert this file to mp3 :)
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[28 Dec 2004|04:58pm] |
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Here are some pictures from Tuppaarnaq's Summer Tour. For those of you who don't know who she is, she's a former member of the group Zedna (Julie Berthelsen used to be in it as well.) I prefer her music over Julie's, mainly because her songs are more influenced by rock and traditional Greenlandic music, as opposed to pop.
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| The Tupilaq |
[28 Jul 2004|03:15pm] |
This is my tupilaq. It is my most treasured travel acquisition.
In August of 1989 I vacationed in Iceland and East Greenland. I almost missed the flight to Iceland since the connecting flight was very late. I chatted with a delayed fellow traveller to Iceland who looked like Grizzly Adams. We all eventually made it to Rejkyavik where I joined a week long camping trip that drove through the middle of Iceland. Four days later, at a beautiful campground on Lake Myvatn in the northern part of the country, I was returning from the shower when I ran into Grizzly guy again. He was travelling with two ladies and he invited me to have a little rum. We sat on a tarp and chatted as the sun stayed out almost all night at that latitude. The threesome were cold water sailers and were supposed to be sailing around Iceland, but the sailboat they had planned to rent had sunk in the St Lawrence River, so they decided to go to Iceland anyway. The prior year, they had all sailed to Greenland. They provided some Greenland travel tips and stated that they really regretted not buying a Tupilaq and that I should try to pick one up.
After the week in Iceland, I flew to Kulusuk Greenland then hopped a short helicopter ride to Ammasalik where I stayed for three days. It's a small village and you mainly just enjoy the scenery and take little hikes and boat rides. I made friends with a Scot and a New Zealander and we three ladies commenced on our shopping trip. That entailed trotting up and down the meager length of paved road and popping into the post office to buy some commemorative stamps. We also checked out the frozen hunks of seal meat in the general store which had been a component in the vile soup fed to us for dinner the previous night. Finally we went in search of Tupilaqs. We asked the locals where to find them and they pointed at various houses. We knocked on the doors of the little colorful houses until an old lady opened her door and pulled out a drawer of Tupilaqs. I picked through the tupilaqs purchased my little evil fellow for $30.
So what is a Tupilaq ? I'll quote from an Arctic Art site:
"The word Tupilaq or Tupilak describes a wide variety of small figures which represent either tupilaqs or other mythical or spiritual creatures. Originally the tupilaq was a creature composed of different materials such as animals parts, human hair, or even parts taken from a child's corpse. Those who knew about witchcraft, gathered these bits and pieces in a secret, isolated place, tied them together, chanted magic spells over them and allowed them to suck the energy from their own sexual organs. Then the tupilaq was ready to be put into the sea and sent off to kill an enemy. This way of getting rid of one' s enemies, however, was not entirely without risk because if the targeted victim had greater powers of wizardry than the initiator, his power could reverse the tupilaq' s strength and potency like a boomerang. In other words, sending a tupilaq to harm an enemy was a dangerous game."
When I show people my Tupilaq, they usually think it's pretty creepy. An old roomate implored "Get that thing away from me". I've yet to use it to put a curse on any enemies, but you never know when the power of the tupilaq could be strategically invoked.
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| What I Got In The Mail... |
[09 Jun 2004|11:57pm] |
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The other day, I received two Greenlandic CDs... and I have yet to hear them. One is a Julie Berthelsen CD Single "Kalaallit Nunaat Pillugu" and a full length album by Tupaarnaq, entitled "Illit". I doubt I'll like the music, but the fact that they are in Greenlandic is really awesome.
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| Hi, Greenland! :-)) |
[27 May 2004|11:31am] |
I from Belorussia. Please, forgive my very incorrect English :-((.
I am interested in living history, medieval embroidery and textiles. I make reconstruction of clothes from Herjolfsness. Such a dress (http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/sojonen/netmus/HERJOLFSNES/hahmo.jpg http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/sojonen/netmus/HERJOLFSNES/hahmo2.jpg )
They are kept in The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
"The graveyard at the Herjolfsnes church contained the remains of some of the original Norse inhabitants. A few were found in coffins, but most were buried simply, wrapped in shrouds. The shrouds were items of clothing, some torn into pieces, some almost intact, and generally assumed to be the personal clothing of that person. There were numerous hoods and hosen, but the best-known finds were the dresses. The dresses were both male and female, adult and child. Dr. Nörlund includes a great deal of research to date these dresses, concluding that most of the finds are consistent with very late 13th c. to very early 15th c. clothing as seen in numerous paintings, illuminations, statuary, and brasses from that period." (c)
Somebody from interlocutors knows about this district of a detail?
Interest not the dry official data, and something more animated - personal impressions.
Whether there are in Greenland museums where household things of medieval inhabitants of island are kept? In our country there is a big shortage of a material on culture of medieval Greenland :-((
I write very chaotically. I am overflown with emotions %)))
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| Greetings! |
[15 May 2004|10:44am] |
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Hello! I'm not a Greenlander, or even a Dane, but an American woman, married to a Dane, who made many Greenlandic friends while I was at the Sproghøjskole på Kalø. I'll be seeing them again on the 28th of May; if you'd like, I could make some cards with the URL for this community and hand them out to them.
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| Info |
[15 May 2004|12:07am] |
Inuugujoq, kutaa! I just wanted to make sure that everyone knows that I updated the info section with a bunch of Kalaallit Nunaat related links that are definately worth your time. If anyone here knows of any more links that I could add, please don't hesitate to tell me.
Qujanarsuaq,
-Kelly
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| Kalaallit Nunaat! |
[11 May 2004|02:22am] |
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This is the first-ever Greenlandic community on LiveJournal. You don't have to be Greenlandic to join; as long as you're interested in the country, the people, the culture, the language, or anything else Greenlandic-related, this is the place for you. For more about this community, check out the info section.
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