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in West Greenland. Hitherto unknown are the following: No. 19 Song 
of the Wheat-ear, and no. 21 The small Birds. These, too, may also 
have been more widely spread formerly. 
‚ Of the rest по. 17 is known from Disko Bay and Aulätsiwik, ? 
Smith Sound and South Greenland”; no. 18 from Aulätsiwik 3 and 
Smith Sound”; no. 20 is a variation of my records from I LLorsuit 
and Arqittoq in North Greenland? and besides previously known from 
South Greenland. 6 
In widely separated regions which have had no connexion for 
many centuries, tradition has thus faithfully preserved these poems 
which the mothers have taught their children, or the children one 
another. Half sung, half chanted in the expressive melody of the 
language these little verses have held out in the secret nooks of the 
people, or have followed it on its adventurous migrations, transmit- 
ting the deepseated germ of the homefeeling through the times, from 
the first home to the most recent boundaries. 
No. 16. The Raven and the Geese. 
Teemiartissag А. Kunnaak В. Qiwinaaaaqg С and X. 
A 
The raven had teased the geese, : 
they being teased by the raven just as 
they were about to travel far to the 
gernertimik niya’”c’a'rput nert-- 
erin, gernertimik nina "carea me sa- 
woartiwokajin а сайт. ima:- 
nin meqaput, qula:ne дегпе ед. ? 
ima'ne aje wa'me ай Пана егроц. 
(shouting) ciluan qærtuluan! Y ta: wa 
ata‘nun одайрип (whispering): tas-- 
oane:lerti”ta miperialerpatigin awi- 
catiga rnidta“marpun, ® 
tås:o:a a’ tarput,” ta'wa gerner- 
teq qula'ne atsina@rta rniart inile; 
qærtuluan ! (6) fås'o:a aw..sertijoka- 
jime-lerpun® atatne merqa:ria-rat 
east out over the sea. They des- 
cended in a flock upon the water, 
the raven above them.® The raven 
being unable to keep afloat on the 
water began to sink downwards (shout- 
ing): Oh, (help) the poor raven! Oh, 
the poor raven! ($) Whereupon those 
below said (whispering to one an- 
other): When we begin to get down 
there, and when he is about to settle 
upon us, we must rapidly separate a 
little from one another. (4 
They set off over the sea.® Then 
(cried) the raven above them, as they 
were about to descend: Oh, (do not 
forget) the raven!) Now they found 
themselves a good way from land, far 
her young, but she caught the raven promptly by the neck with her sharp bill 
and kept hold of his breast with her talons. Loudly screaming the raven tries 
to escape, but the puffin holds fast, pulls him fighting into the sea where he 
is drowned when she lets go of him. 
Medd. om Gronland vol. 31, pp. 293 and 311—312. 
Cf. Festschrift Vilhelm Thomsen pp. 120—123 and 124. 
Medd. om Gronland 31, p. 312. 
D ae & NN = 
In Kroeber, cf. Festschrift Vilhelm Thomsen p. 125. 
Medd. om Grønland 31, p. 289 (no. 4). 
Festschrift Vilhelm Thomsen, pp. 117—118. 
