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The Scar is a tale of everyday lige, faith and loyalty in the 14th century Catholic society of Southern Greenland.

As children, two siblings, Bjørg and Thorleif, enter into an oath of loyalty in which they mix their blood. When they grow up, both get married and Bjørg has children. Bjørg's husband sails northwards to hunt walrus and trade with the skraelings and, as a confirmation of a good trade with the inuit, he is invited to go to bed with a local woman. When he returns home to Sissarluttoq, his conscience is plaguing him, and when Bjørg gives birth to a dead child, he confesses his infidelity.

Gardar, the episcopal seat in Southern Greenland, belongs to the Norwegian church, and the Greenlanders pay tithes to the Norwegian archbishop and taxes to the Norwegian king and the city where they trade their goods. Bjørg travels to Bergen with Thorleif and his wife Gudveig. The journey has catastrophic consequences for the little group of Greenlanders and, after their return, the oath of loyalty between Bjørg and her brother is activated.

 

Lisbeth Valgreen, Nuka K. Godtfredsen, Ilinniusiorfik 2018, 60 pages

The Scar

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