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oqaka'^Tia | римшрси-ощ \ imerXo \ ajuiVoria j saperarno/a 

 ajori'ik'aluarkoria \ sapt7i'ik'ahiarXo7ia j ikoiutiwnut u)ii"'k'arto- 

 rasoTidlo'iia \ alidk'a ^ \ puàs'uàlidka ^ \ ищШк'а ^ 



AletÇs) I his future wife | when she ran about (in play) | and 

 when she threw wet mud about her | ? * | Sulupaks ^ \ the big 

 idiot's 1 his big heart | it was deeply wounded (by her) | he the new 

 young man | he scolded me (saying:) | I am one who never mil be- 

 come happy I and says | that I am evil | since he had no power 

 over me j although I am not otherwise incapable | although I am 

 not otherwise poAverless | to ray friends | he has got the intention 

 to tell something (bad) about me | ? j ? I ? | 



' perhaps = interjection kik'i'k. which expresses disgust. * means 

 literally: sea-perch (perca norvegica) * the last three words are difficult 

 to understand. The suffi.v -k'a means: my (plur.) * <C puak, lung 



^ < Нгрьк, liver. 



i. Songs from Rodebay (Jakobshavn District). 



(Karl Olrik who communicated these songs (no. 99, 100 and 

 101) to me heard them in the middle of the last century up north 

 in Ata-). 



99. Sij'/Mti):e amerAormhit qaqajarXersarpat \ schfc 

 qaqajarXi/:arpa^ase \ ilisimanerqarpuse \ atalcœ | qaqajarXersut 

 qaqajarXersùt \ псанщ^аШагри-зе 



Why are the inhabitants of Amerloq in the habit of running 



them down? | srha' (a name?) | Of a certainty you (plural) run them 



down(?) I you know all about it | now listen! | the down-runners 

 (the abusers) | you know them. 



100. kaka\järiuar?.o pa-kawuk \ kakajafärio'p siutiTfuak'nf 

 kcwwria I aki/:nar/j(qole \ kcwara 



When I and Kakajäriuaq wrestled | Kakajäriuaq bit rae in my 

 little ear. | But I paid him back in full | (and) I bit him. 



101.^ awaniqxq qihr^d-q ki^Xiiiani^oq ariUiusiriuaqCi) \ 

 kia piwcf | и'пш piwa- \ 

 sa'iniusaqarma (?) talerqiseqarme (?) 



