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9 tagama:'tson 
10 ortojan-a 
11 napajary'a 
12 natan-a 
ACID 
1 a'pina: qula'ne pujo'r 1 See, up there on the top, there is mist! 
2 akan-a cegernito ata‘ne 2 See, down there at the foot, there is 
sunshine! 
3 arpertiluk-aq 3 On the top of Arpertilukkaaq 
4 qula:ne taluk-an 4 A part divided by a parting wall [?] 
5 ip'iäquäta 5 Above its steep side, 
6 narciy äta 6 Above its up bent crest 
7 qula'ne pojo'r 7 Maere ws wast — 
8 A awaqarma:‘con 8 Awa, lo! — the fur cap (of mist). 
8 В аеда-та“‘со"п 
9  ortu'jay'a 9 Overturn me quickly, 
10 napajay'a 10 Raise me quickly, 
11 nåt:an'a(-a") 11 Lie down by me! 
NOTES. — -Ёо perhaps a participial termination (= -tsoqg) — 3. The name 
of the mountain must be a compound of агред ‘a whale’ (perhaps signifying 
a special sort of whale). Both A and my later interpreters agreed in this.— 
4. taluk'ayn is presumably meant as a metamophor of ‘mist or fog’ covering 
the top of the mountain’ < falo ‘a partition wall of skin on the platform in the 
hut’, from which is derived a verb *talup:a: (otherwise, in WGr. faluwa:) ‘provides 
it (or him) with a partition wall.’ — 5-6. (рак ‘a cliff, a steep high clayey bank.’ 
narcia ‘the snout, the upturned frontpart, e. g. of a sleigh keel.’ For this inter- 
pretation I take the responsibility myself. Sufia connected the first word with 
ip:it oq ‘an aggressor in the drum contest’, interpreting it as imperative = ip'in'- 
iarta ‘let us attack’, but I see no sense from this in the context of the poem. — 
8. awa- and ata (in A 1.9 ta-) was regarded by Kuannia as a sort of comple- 
mentary syllable resembling the refrain in a drum-song. He asserted that 
such syllables often occurred in petting songs for children, and easily made 
the words unrecognizable. At Ammassalik (and only there) the man in the 
kaiak wore a large flat cap of fox skin, which was called gam'a'icag or даг- 
maws aq (cf. First Part, pp. 589—591, figg. 314b and 315 a), and this word 
might be used in the same way as they in South Greenland say ndsaq ‘the 
hood of a man’s anorak’ about the mist-cap which can lie above a moun- 
tain summit. 
No. 13. Murky Sky, Drizzle. 
Natseq (DD and Phon.) 
A dark, gloomy sentiment prevails in this poem. It has the character of 
a rhapsody in impressive, artistic forms, both as regards rhythm, assonances, 
reiteration, and accent (cf. transcription according to the phonogram, Melodies, 
no. 5, р. 63). As regards the substance, the interpretation is rather doubtful 
especially in the last lines, concerning which I refer to the notes. 
