Hans Egede, missionary (phonetically, the surname might be transcribed for an English speaker as [ˈiːjəˌðə], otherwise approximated as ‘ee-uh-the’, with primary stress on the first syllable).
Gertrud Rasch, his wife, affectionately referred to as Käthe (Katie) by Egede (cf. Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther, whom Luther often called by the same name).
Their children: Poul, Niels, Kirstine, Petronelle.
Aappaluttoq, ‘the Red One’, a shaman.
Frederik Christian, also called Paapa, son of Aappaluttoq, Egede’s foster-son.
Albert Top, a former missionary of the colony, now departed.
Frederik IV, King of Denmark and Norway.
Anna Sophie, his queen.
Ulrik Adolf Holstein, Count of Holsteinborg, former page to the King, now Grand Chancellor.
Henrik, an emancipated African slave, a so-called ‘blackamoor’.
Johan Hartman, a deserter.
Sise ‘Petticoat’ Hansdatter, a sewer of shoes, sweetheart of, and later married to, Johan Hartman. Her first name might be pronounced [ˈsiːˌsə], or ‘see-suh’, with stress on the first syllable.
Claus Enevold Pors, Major, appointed Governor of the Colony at Godthåb.
Skård, an Icelander, Pors’s valet. Pronounced to rhyme with ‘sword’.
Peter Hageman, a convict.
Katrine Olofsdatter, ‘Cellar-Katrine’, his wife.
Jørgen Fleischer, Paymaster of the colony.
Jürgen Kopper, Trader of the colony.
Ole Lange, priest.
Henrik Balthasar Miltzov, priest.
Didrik Mühlenfort, ship’s captain.
The jomfru Titia – full name Anna Dorothea Titius – Pors’s housekeeper, ‘jomfru’ [ˈjɒmˌfruː], ‘yom-fruh’, being a form of address for a young, unmarried woman of undistinguished social status.
Jørgen Landorph, Commandant.
Christian Kieding, Physician-surgeon of the colony.
Thomas Tode, also referred to as ‘Knife-man’, barber-surgeon, Kieding’s assistant.
Søren Fuchs, Apothecary at Køge, Denmark.
Jens Smith, smith of the colony.
Matthias Jochumsen, explorer.
Just, Matthias’s brother.
Knud, Matthias’s son.
Carl, a Greenlander boy who travels to Denmark and then returns.
Christian David, a German Moravian.
Matthäus and Christian Stach, cousins, German Moravians.
The jomfru Katarina, a young Christian woman of Greenland.
Lauritz Oxbøl, a young missionary.
Martin Luther, the Reformer.
Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer, the Devil.