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Now the old angakok does not want to continue any more. 

 But the child from the north land says : Come, let us try once 

 more! — The old one says nothing. The boy goes down to 

 the beach where the kajak lies, and takes out the seal-lance 

 and thrusts it against the sea. How it squirted up on all sides, 

 just as the ice becomes in warm sun-shine. He glides out over 

 the sea without sinking in. Eagerly the Innuits gaze at him. 



When he has finished gliding, he gets up, and the north- 

 erners shout: he is invincible! — The southerners' angakok 

 would rather not try it, but his countrymen pressed him: Well, 

 will it come to anything ! otherwise you ahvays used to say 

 that you are the first. 



Although he does not care to at all, yet he has to go 

 down to the beach. He takes the seal-lance and thrusts it 

 against the sea, and it squirted up, for the present. Whatever 

 else he thrust it against, it flew to all sides. Then he began 

 to jump out. 



The northerners shouted : Only look ! the big angakok is 

 gliding at a fine rate! — How it squirted and splashed! He 

 plumped into the water and that was good for him. 



They laughed with all their might, all the many Innuits 

 who stood and looked at it. 



The big angakok from the south land went shamefaced 

 into his tent. Otherwise the northerners generally used to lose. 

 So far the tale goes. The northerners carried off the victory. 

 Here it ends. 



8. Perkerqoja-q (The Simpleton). 



{Niarqornars'Hk, Egedesminde). 



[This tale is obviously a European folk-tale which has undergone some 

 revision in Greenlandic tradition and has got a good deal of Eskimo co- 

 louring, however, without losing its foreign character. It is of course of 

 late origin]. 



PerXerqoja'rim-a \ timiusiäs-aseqarXune qalidmine | uivunvat 

 iwarput able kisidt ilaijalu^o \ sinilersùt as'arnei'soaq tikiup'oq | 



