Leine Kim: Proroci fjorda večnosti
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Proroci fjorda večnosti
Leine Kim
Summary
Kim Leine: Prophets of the Fjord of Eternity
We meet Morten Falk, a young Norwegian, in Copenhagen, where his family sends him to study theology. Having broken off his engagement with Abelona, one of the three daughters of the printer Šulc, with whom he temporarily lives, he voluntarily goes to the Danish colony in Greenland, wishing to devote himself to missionary work. He describes this land of "eternal winter" in his diary with the words: "Greenland is the night that separated the evening when I went to sleep as a young man and the morning when I woke up as a worn-out old man".
The spread of Christ's faith among the native population of Greenland, but also among the Danish colonialists steeped in vices, was not at all easy, and even his faith was put to the test. The married couple Habakkuk and Maria Magdalena, revolted by the hypocrisy and corruption of the colonialists as well as the immorality of the former priest, found a parallel Christian community. In their teaching, they combine paganism and Christianity, and their community expands and strengthens. Morten Falk is trying to execute a warrant for the couple's arrest. Having gone to the settlement of "Eternity Fjord", he realizes that their faith is much purer and that this "utopian community" actually represents a more sincere and humane form of Christianity than all the others he had encountered until then. However, he also realizes that she is too pure and that she is doomed as such, since the Danish colonial administration, which does not tolerate even a trace of independence of the Inuit population, will not tolerate her.
The reluctance of the natives to adapt to the way of life of the hypocritical colonizers will result in a dramatic clash of cultures. Kim Leine's novel, skilfully composed and superbly narrated, depicting the life and society of Greenland at the end of the 18th century, manages to tell a completely modern story at the same time. This is a common ambition, but few writers live up to it.
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