154 W. THALBITZER. 
of some emotion of the mind, is not rare, and adds to the obscurity 
of the wording.” — Both this and similar anakolutha are not un- 
common in Eskimo poetry and prose. 
A closer study of the language in the poems will probably dis- 
close more anomalies. It is my impression that the use of the “limited 
affixes” is somewhat freer in the poems than in the ordinary spoken 
language; that sometimes those otherwise attached to verbs only, are 
joined with nouns, or vice-versa. 
Purely individual tendencies may probably also assert themselves. 
The texts of Kittaararteq, Napa and Ittimaneejuk seem to bear the 
imprint of individual peculiarities in form and the choice of words 
whether this be due to the person communicating or to the speech 
of his family, or to the dialect of the Sermilikfiord. 
