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do we here see on the ground? — [answer] newly fallen snow. — 7. sorqartaq 
(1) ‘hoop round a wooden vessel or a bucket’, (2) ‘the winding of a leather 
strap’ (round a broken leg or arm, for example) (Sufia considered this word 
as a name of the baby). — 9 misarar is what one calls the blubber, which 
is stuffed into large bags for preservation during the winter; presumably — 
WGr. miserag ‘sauce, dipping’ (liquid blubber?). Sufia, on the other hand, 
explained misarar as ‘edible sea-weed’: misarartualersog ‘it is time now to 
begin the sea-weed eating. — 12.—SGr. kusanap'il’oq. 
No. 8. The Baby on the Mountain Terrace. 
Napa, Nappartuko’s wife A. Tupaaja, Perqitaq’s wife В. Anittanne С. 
The first two almost correspond; C’s text is incomplete. 
This poem, which is a mother’s petting song, is extremely disconnected, 
and is one of the most obscure and most difficult to interpret, on account 
of its inner incoherency. As my assistant interpreters were often at variance 
with one another, I have preferred to collect their contributions in two 
different translations, so will start with Napa’s text as a basis, and will give 
the variants of the other two texts in the notes. The first translation is 
composed especially from the Ammassalikers’ own depositions; the other 
from Kuannia’s, Johan Petersen’s, and my own guesses. 
A First transiation. 
He (she) leant against the steep mountain side 
The dear little Alitjuättiaq (С) 
. rd [or] The too early (or in concealment) born 
2 alic uacıdn war fetus (B) 
The mist lay round him (it); there was too 
narrow room (AC) 
— fetched (B) 
Great, white, hairless skins (A) 
cee skins of harbour seals 
?] 
[? same meaning as in 1.7. В] 
EUREN (The wind) down here from the east, which 
gacıylarlıwın is accustomed to cause the lice to die of 
hunger (A) 
7 asaluic:ertiwin 10 Oh, then, southerly winds! 
11 Let us open (bore)! 
8 nalerca-iuic:ertiwin 12 Let us open! let us (make it hard?)! 
3 13 The great livers — stroke with the hand over 
9 kanan'a ka:c'inerta:ia (them)! 
i 1) < 14 One who fetches from (in?) Uweewik (2) 
15 Both little great splinters 
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5 unertiwin, garterte win 
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10 awan-a:-alit-uin 16 And little great feathers(?) 
17 — black — 
11 ат-агЁа 18 Stroke, stroke stroke with the hand! 
Second translation. 
1 They lay up by the steep rock wall with the 
SENT Bole SE boat, they say. 
iis eT de The dear little prematurely born baby, 
It was difficult to stoop; there was too narrow 
space. 
els i It pushed it out, it pushed it out. 
15 qilip:a'iuitse: Great, hairless, white-bleached skins, 
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12 amårtajå, sikartaja 
14 а-гсегсег uwe:we:me 
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