2 
40 
cu:rto mat: a9"; 7 
cwærto malt: aa: 8 
nuiartertua nuilar6'k:o 
пшаге па nutlarö'n 10 
quernano:kajeka martino‘kae*ka 11 
qiternano’kajeka martipo'kaek 12 
co‘rto mat-a2' ! 13° 
1) 
.co'rto mat ao: 14 
М’. THALBITZER. 
It was as if it slipped its jacket 
off, 
As if it slipped the clouds off. 
When the great neck-opening em- 
erged for me, 
When the great neck-opening em- 
merged |?|. 
Both my poor children, 
My small, poor children, both of 
them — 
It was as if it slipped something 
off 
As if it slipped the clouds from 
itself [2]. | 
VARIANTS Of A.— 1 kiala: nuilera:rak:o.— 2 |: lut:o: mata-wo: :/.— 3 at-arner 
nuilera:rak:o. — 4 tut'umat-a‘wa:-. — 5 
kaje-k martino:kae-ka. 
Fig. 42. Young man. Portrait of Anittane 
drawn by Mrs. E. Locher Thalbitzer 
(Ammassalik 1906). 
nuiarter nutlera rak-0. — 6 qgilernano:- 
NOTES. — 1. kidta: В, kiala- A’are 
variants of the same word but 
this is open to two interpretations 
formally agreeing with two differ- 
ent words: 1) ‘the region towards 
the north, the North’ = WGr. kuja- 
ta, ог 2) ‘a man’s body above the 
waist’; here, following the connec- 
tion, it seems to be used with refer- 
ence to the sky. — nuilaro-k-o or 
nuliaro:k-o (heard with difficulty 
in phonograph), nu-‘lera:rak:o A, to 
be understood, according to Kuan- 
nia, as nuilera:nak:o ‘when it (the 
land or the sky) rose up for me, 
when it was accustomed to emerge 
for me’ (while I paddled outward 
in my kaiak). In the next line the 
concluding syllable is dropped, as 
the melody or the rhythm demands 
it. — 3-4. curto В, tuto) A same 
word answering to WGr. so:rLo. — 
mata-w9 or mata:wo: А (accord- 
ing to Kuannia) about the clouds 
which rise and open, so that the 
sky becomes clear. Sufia would 
derive it from mat:ak ‘whale rind’: 
“the sky is shining and whitish 
