Hero tales of the far North . s struck for him ; the people didnot greet him with loud acclaim. TheKing and his court paid scant attentionto him, and he was allowed to live his lastdays in poverty. Yet a greater honor ishis than ever fell to a discoverer : the sim-ple natives of Greenland long reckonedthe time from his coming among them he was in their ice-bound homewhat Father Damien was to the strickenlepers in the South seas, and Dr. Gren-fell is to the fishermen of Labrador. Hans Poulsen Egede, the apostle of Green-land, was a Norwegian of Danish was born in the Northlan
Hero tales of the far North . s struck for him ; the people didnot greet him with loud acclaim. TheKing and his court paid scant attentionto him, and he was allowed to live his lastdays in poverty. Yet a greater honor ishis than ever fell to a discoverer : the sim-ple natives of Greenland long reckonedthe time from his coming among them he was in their ice-bound homewhat Father Damien was to the strickenlepers in the South seas, and Dr. Gren-fell is to the fishermen of Labrador. Hans Poulsen Egede, the apostle of Green-land, was a Norwegian of Danish was born in the Northlands, in theparish of Trondenas, on January 31, grandfather and his father beforehim had been clergymen in Denmark,the former in the town of West Egede,whence the name. Graduated in a singleyear from the University of Copenhagen, at which, his teachers bore witness, no one need wonder who knows the man,he became at twenty-two pastor of a parishup in the Lofoden Islands, where thefabled maelstrom churns. Eleven years he. HANS EGEDE TIL!
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