Henning Jakob Henrik Lund

Henrik Lund with wife, Malene, 1911. Photo by Frederik Carl Peter Rüttel

Henning Jakob Henrik Lund or Intel'eraq (1875–1948)[1] was a Greenlandic lyricist, painter, and pastor. He wrote the lyrics to "Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit,"[2] in the indigenous Greenlandic language,[3] an Eskimo–Aleut language.[4] The song was adopted as the national anthem of Greenland.[2]

  1. ^ Frederiksen, 653
  2. ^ a b Frederiksen, 658
  3. ^ "National Anthems of the World." Archived 2012-11-04 at the Wayback Machine Traditional Songs from the British Isles plus our Special Selections. 2006 (retrieved 12 Nov 2009)
  4. ^ Greenlandic (kalaallisut). Omniglot. 2009 (retrieved 12 Nov 2009)

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