Legends and Tales from Angmagsalik. SOS 



"Thou are very fond of him , and thou consortest much with 

 him. When thou singest, thou must take him round the neck, 

 look on him, and be good to him". 



Igsiavik put a stick edgewise in his opponent's mouth. 



"I cannot help my opponent not being able to sing or bring 

 forth his voice". 



He put a block of wood in his opponent's mouth, and made as- 

 if he were sewdng up his mouth. 



"What shall we do with my opponent? He can neither sing 

 anything, nor bring forth his voice. Since one cannot hear him, I 

 had perhaps better stretch out his mouth and try to make it 

 larger". 



He stretched out his opponent's mouth to the sides with his 

 fingers and crammed blubber right down his throat, whereupon his 

 mouth w^as gagged with a stick. 



"My opponent has much to say against me. He says 1 wanted 

 to do Akenatsiak a hurt, and would have slain him. When we came 

 from Siurarmiut to Amitsuarsik from the south, it was thou who 

 didst first challenge Akenatsiak to a drum match". 



Igsiavik laid a thong in his opponent's mouth and tied it up 

 under the rafters. 



"I wot not that I would have done a hurt to Akenatsiak, and 

 would have slain him, and I wot not why I should have done it". 



"It must no doubt be because we are both after his^) wife that 

 he accuses me of it". 



"When he sings at me again, I shall also sing at him again". 



Every time Igsiavik mocked Misuarnianga between the verses^ 

 by playing all sorts of tricks on him , the latter displayed his in- 

 difference to the mockery by telling the lookers-on to shout and 

 laugh at him. 



Igsiavik now wants to make a new song 'which will be very" 

 amusing, and in which I shall bind my opponent to the post'. 



50. DRUM-SONG OF TIGAJAK ON THE MAN WHO 

 DESIRED TO HAVE A SON. 



A man who was unable to get his wife of child, urged her to have intercourse 

 with other men in order that she might have a son. When she did so, her hus- 

 band became jealous and began to beat her. The man she had intercourse witli 

 challenged the husband to a drum-match, and sang as follows: 



^) Ipatikajik's 



