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As he was obliged to follow in a boat the pursuers of his 

 brother who fled in kayak, he feigned to be pulling exceedingly 

 hard, and in so doing, purposely broke every oar he got in hand, 

 in order to delay the pursuit (48). 



The hospitable man at whose house the two travellers had 

 put up, said to them, that if they wanted to have wives, they might 

 take his daughters: in this way they got married the same day 

 (10, 07). 



A man stayed out on a journey so long a time, that his own 

 people had given him up, when he returned; meanwhile an old 

 bachelor had undertaken to provide for his family, he now feared 

 that the man should feel jealous, but on the contrary he earned 

 thanks as well as a reward for this service (71). 



The father gave his son several instructions as a new begin- 

 ning hunter, admonishing him not to go to the north, because of 

 a monstrous reptile. But nevertheless he went to meet with it, 

 vanquished and killed it (5). 



The brothers started on an expedition to find and visit their 

 sister who lived among cannibals ... in proceeding along the coast 

 in search of an inhabited place they kept a look out for ravens, 

 where they might be sean soaring ... in this way they discovered 

 a number of houses . . . after having secured their sledges and 

 waited the fall of night, they went cautiously up to one large house, 

 mounted the roof and looked down the venthole . . . recognised 

 their sister as being quite white on one side of the head . . . they 

 made a sign by spitting down . . . their brother in law then in- 

 stantly emerged from the entrance, carrying his bow ready beat in 

 his hand ... as they had told him about their relation to his wife, 

 he instantly invited them to go in, and ordered a meal to be pre- 

 pared for them . . . they learned that all the people of the place 

 were cannibals and had made a cannibal out of their sister too 

 . . . however their brother in law was very careful for them , and 

 in order to save them from being pursued when leaving his house 

 the next morning, he cut asunder the lashings of all the sledges 

 belonging to his neighbours (9). 



Two brothers in roaming about came to people who suffered 

 under the sway of a strong man". They vanquished and killed 

 him, whereupon his inferiors greatly rejoiced and would make the 

 strangers henceforth their masters . . . They also defied and killed 

 a giant in another place, who used to stab any stranger, that came 

 to him, in fighting matches with lances (10). 



When strangers enter into a house it is customary, in the first 

 place to offer them a meal, and secondly invite them to a wrest- 

 ling match (23, 25, 26, 36). 



Several men lived together at the mouth of a fjord. All those 

 who went kayaking up the fjord disappeared one after another (48). 



A boy fled to the inland and grew kivigtok", because he 



