Amazing Salamina

Erik Torm, author, has, in continuation of his interest in the American artist Rockwell Kent, written a new book about the artist's up-and-down relationship with Salamina Fleischer Møller, who got a job as a kiffaq with the American during the two periods he was in Illorsuit.

The book is called "A Golden Light - the Story of Saalamiit's Amazing Life".

With only 74 pages in total, it is a quick read. If you have an interest in genealogy and namedropping of Illorsuit and the area's inhabitants from the 1890s to the 1930s, it will take a bit longer to read.

And what a drama Erik Torm manages to illuminate. Or maybe people just expressed their feelings in a different way back then. Regardless, it is interesting reading.

After Rockwell Kent's first period in the North Greenland settlement, Salamina wrote him a letter, in which she writes, among other things:

- I will never forget all that we have had together, I love you as one loves one's husband, because you have treated me as your wife.

Elsewhere in the book, Rockwell Kent's writing about his first meeting with Salamina can be read. Here he writes, among other things:

- I am in a room filled with light that is so strong that even the shadows are golden. A golden light and in the middle of it, from it or as a source of it - it is unknown! - there stands a woman.