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Adam Olearius's ‘About the Greenlanders’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

David Scheffel
David Scheffel
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Department of Social Sciences, Cariboo College, Kamloops, BC V2C 5N3 Canada
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Abstract

The 17th-century German traveller and writer Adam Olearius is best known for his account of travels in Russia and Persia, first published in 1656. Parts of this work have been translated into English under the title ‘The travels of Olearius in seventeenth-century Russia’. Among hitherto untranslated sections is the chapter ‘Von den Grünländern’, an early and well-researched account of Greenland and its inhabitants, prompted by his examination of a party of three Greenlanders in Gottorp, Schleswig, in 1656. This article is a translation of the chapter, with an introduction to Olearius and his background.

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Polar Record , Volume 23 , Issue 147 , September 1987 , pp. 701 - 711
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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