280 W. THALBITZER. 
Also Sufia explained it thus: tu- 
m'arnuar-nerarpa (or -uminerar- 
ра’) ‘declares himself desirous of 
being trod on.’ — 4. Perhaps the 
word should be arna:’ner- which 
signifies ‘a woman who is in tem- 
porary intrigue with a man.’ My 
informant explained that it sign- 
ified the summer, which was 
called so by the spirits.— 6. e’ne-wi- 
instead of in'ewi-. My informant 
stated that this word also be- 
longed to the spirits’ language. — 
Fig. 50. An angakok pupil in front of his 7. He said, further: “Only when 
grinding stone. (From a painting by the fells have become free from 
Mrs. Thalbitzer, Ammassalik 1906.) snow in the summer can the high 
peaks, like human beings, ‘smell’ 
or ‘kiss’ one another; in the winter they cannot.” Compare with this what 
Jacobsen states, viz., that the Alaska Eskimo in Norton Sound believe that 
the fells pair, while they call the volcanic eruptions ‘the fells’ children’ 
(Capt. Jacobsen ed. Woldt, 1887, p. 224). 
No. 104. Song of Sanneen the Assistant Spirit. 
Mitsuarnianna. 
Sanneen has been on the way northwards to Cape Kayertiwayiwaq, on 
an errand for his angakok, flying through the air. On his way he has spied 
down on the settlement, and has noted how the people there were “evil as 
usual.” 
I also viewed it out there in the east, 
me‘sugia:ra-kin-a I again observed it out there in the east, 
le gie”ra-kin'a 1 
2 
kanertiwan:uwokajik 3 The ugly Kagertiwaniwaq. 
4 
5 
ата tdt-a-kin-a Let it mind itself, out there in the east — 
taima'i täta-kin'a Let it mind itself, out there in the east! 
NOTES. — 1. ile = WGr. isigi- ‘looks at it.’ -giéra ‘also’ or perhaps ‘again’, 
WGr. -giorara has in line 2 become -gia’ra. -kin'a ‘it (him) out there in the 
east’ said either about a person or about a locality. — 2. me’su- ‘investigates 
it, looks investigatingly at it — 3. Here, no doubt, not only the land out there 
but also the people living in the fjord behind the cape are meant. The name 
means ‘the dear little great cape.’ — 4-5. Perhaps the same as {a‘ima'itartoq, 
explained by Kuannia thus: ‘it is always the same, the conditions are un- 
changed. The reciter, my angakok, explained that his assistant spirit ap- 
proached Kanertiwaniwaq and examined the land (from the air), but thought 
that it did not look promising. The people who dwelt there knew that he 
was approaching, and he turned back. 
No. 105. A Timerseeq’s Song (I). 
Mitsuarnianna. 
Mitsuarnianna had learnt this song from Ak"ko. The Timerseet ‘inland 
dwellers’ (a mythical people) are said to follow the streams out to the sea 
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