Language and Folklore. 239 
Notes. — 1. Cf. WGr. a:rqiup'a: 
‘arranges it proportionately with 
something else’ (e. g. the arrow in 
the bow aiming at its object). -шаг 
intensitive suffix (WGr. -Z-uar). Kuan- 
nia explained täiäte as akiliarte-ta: 
‘the intervening part’ viz. between 
the refrain lines i. e. the burden. — 
2. kitiga-, lit. ‘its boundary.’ While 
A, by the locative suffix -ne, indicates 
the presentment of the poem lying 
ready to be sent out from the tongue, 
B, by -gin ‘through’, thinks of ‘the 
way in which’ it has to be sent out 
(like a weapon). The expression is 
not unique in Greenlandic: Hanserak 
states that the East Greenlanders 
paraphrased ‘the lips’ with oqalul-- 
awtip sina, literally ‘the borders 
of the organ of speech’, see Rink in 
First Part, p. 210. — 3. The termin- 
ation -ifa in A not clear (perhaps 
-a, the emphatic vocative suffix ?). — 
4. Jt is not clear whether this line 
belongs to what goes before (as in- 
dicating the reason for his making Fig. 41. Young man. Portrait 
the poem) or to what follows after. drawn by Mrs. Ellen Locher Thalbitzer 
— 6. Cf. WGr. qivs'erLup'oq ‘it is (Ammassalik 1906). 
sleet-weather, with heavy showers.’ 
-(r)sa‘(r)- ‘manifold, containing many —’ (or ‘big, imposing’?); -piwa- (WGr. 
-y-ua-) ‘little’; -a:win < -arajiwin(?| ‘bad, foul’. — 5-10. Meaning: I was taken 
unawares up there by bad weather and caught nothing. 
No. 40. The Kaiak Paddler’s Song of the North Sky. : 
Nujappik’s daugther, Cimmijoog AX. 
The kaiak paddler sees the clouds in the north sky draw themselves 
away, as a skin clothing is drawn off a human body, and he gets to thinking 
of his own small children at home. The melody is peculiar, as is the con- 
cluded form of the poem, with its thrice repeated refrain, giving the effect 
of a consciously perfected composition. (Cf. Melodies no. 17.) 
X 
kidta: nuilar6:k-o 1 When the north sky out there over the sea 
emerged for me 
kiäta: nuilarö:, 2 When the north sky emerged, 
cu:rto mat ai 3 It was (just) as if it slipped its fur jacket ой [?] 
cu‘rto таЁаэ: 4 As if it slipped the clouds from itself. [?] 
atarnertua nuilarö'ko 5 When the great lightening emerged for me 
atarnertua nuilarök 6 The lightening emerged 
