Henning Jakob Henrik Lund

thumb| Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq (29 September 1875 – 17 June 1948) was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter, and Lutheran pastor. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput Utoqqarsuanngoravit", in the Indigenous Greenlandic language, an Eskimo–Aleut language. The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland. Quotes Our country, when you grew very old, your head was crowned with white hair. You carried steadfast your children in your arms and gave them what belonged to your coastland.We who here grew up with you as an immature people, as small children, we want to call ourselves kalâtdlit in front of your honorable head!And making use of all that belongs to you, we feel a desire to advance: bettering the conditions, which hold you back, we are firmly resolved to go forward, forward.We want very much to follow the mature people. We are longing to use the freedom of speech and press!There is not at all the slightest reason for holding back. Greenlanders, stand up on your feet, forward! It is well worth to live as men. Show that you can think for yourselves! Nunarput / 'Our Country' (1912), translated into English prose by Svend Frederiksen, "Henrik Lund, A National Poet of Greenland", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 96, no. 6 (20 December 1952) p. 658 External links Category:1875 births Category:1948 deaths Category:People from Greenland Category:Lutherans Category:Lyricists