Arnarsaq ( – fl. 1778), was an Inuk translator, interpreter, and Christian convert who lived in what is now modern-day Greenland. She is particularly known for her work with the Danish theologian Paul Egede. Alongside Hans Punngujooq, Arnarsaq helped Egede translate the New Testament into Greenlandic. She had an important position in the Danish missions among the Inuit on Greenland in the 18th century, and has also been portrayed in fiction.
Arnarsaq ( – fl. 1778), was an Inuk translator, interpreter, and Christian convert who lived in what is now modern-day Greenland. She is particularly known for her work with the Danish theologian Paul Egede. Alongside Hans Punngujooq, Arnarsaq helped Egede translate the New Testament into Greenlandic. She had an important position in the Danish missions among the Inuit on Greenland in the 18th century, and has also been portrayed in fiction.
==Life == Arnarsaq came and asked to be taught how to come to the Christian God; she converted and was baptized in 1737, and was allowed to keep her original name instead of being given a name from the Bible at her baptism, which was unusual. She is described as a critical debate partner of Egede. In her Bible translation, she prevented censorship and was able to present it the way she saw it: her interpretation of Christianity is considered to have had a large impact upon the version of Christianity accepted by the Inuit. She followed Egede to Denmark in 1740. She visited the Danish royal court in 1740, where she was presented with an Inuk boy to the court as a curiosity. In 1741, she was sent as a missionary to Greenland, where she rivalled the missionaries of the Moravian Church.
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