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perqorqiak:o anersaiora 23 I bowed over it (my oar) again [?], it 
is also my song. 
atergorqiak'o anersaiora 24 I used it again [?], it is also my song. 
Notes. — 1. anersa‘rpoq signifies in WGr. ‘spirits, draws spirits’, but in 
EGr. very often in poetry has the meaning ‘besings, sings about someone or 
something’ (in the transitive form). Here, in the poem, the form seems to 
answer to the shorter optative form of -fa with the suffix -go as reported 
by Kleinschmidt (Grammar, р. 53, § 58°), cf. по. 105, but might also answer 
to WGr. anersa'rzagit ‘let me sing of you’; in the latter case lines 1 to 4 must 
be thought of as sung by the angakok and addressed to his assistant spirit, 
which then continues with line 5-7. — 1-4. awalät'arnermat would presumably 
answer to WGr. awalär'arnarmat, in which -z’ar means ‘quickly, boldly, with 
vigour and strength’, while -nar is the personal and neuter infix, and in its 
meaning covers both T, ‘you’ and the third person, it often being possible 
to translate it by ‘one.’ — @- (in 3-4) signifies the pointing gesture which goes 
with the mention of the direction. — 5. -pdt-artiwa seems to be composed of 
-par(pog) which, with words signifying position or direction, means ‘moves 
to there’, and -Z'ar, see preceding note; really, then, ‘as I resolutely moved 
off-shore, cf. 1.9 kiäwa:tartiwa. sikilegisak‘o, in my record, was corrected by 
_ Kuannia to two words (sikit, plural of siko ‘sea ice, + -fegi(2) and -sak'o 
“those down there in the east.’). — 7. sia’ answers to WGr. sina: ‘the edge of 
the rim, the edge of something’, for example, fast ice on the coast. -ra’ ‘has 
it before one’, -si(wa:) ‘gets a view of it. — 8. kiamut tusak'o must also be 
corrected, perhaps to kiam-ut'u ‘and towards the north.’ sak:o ‘these out there’ 
probably refers to the ice-floes which drift along the coast towards the south, 
generally at some distance from land in the summer. — 10-11. -i?n'a ‘that’ 
indicates that what is pointed to belongs to the past (‘it was in the autumn’). — 
11. -far is no doubt the same as -zar, see note to lines 1-4 (5). — 12-13. ila'le 
is an interjectional word expressing wonder or irony ‘what’s the matter! 
indeed! or encouragement ‘just so, begin!’ The first syllable of ne ne‘lorpit 
is presumably contracted from niner-, ‘gets part of the catch’; the follow- 
ing syllable is probably the negation (just as in 1. 14); -lor might be a form 
in EGr. of the WGr. -lar (< -lag). It is not clear to me why the vowel (e:) 
here and in lines 8 and 22 is lengthened before -lor. — 16. it-(er) answers 
to WGr. ifu, cf. itup'oq ‘(the wind or the sea) roars’; the whole forms a 
noun, the meaning of which answers to ‘a roaring storm. — 17. pilar’a = 
WGr. piloraq ‘a rising gale.’ — 18. Cf. WGr. iputine qim'up'a ‘lays his oars 
out along the side of the boat while ceasing to row.’ — 19. ‘Lost sight of 
(WGr. a ®n'a‘wa:), namely as a result of the thick snowstorm or of the foam 
drift. — 21. On account of the exertion, naturally. qgimumaler(pa:) must be а 
derivative of gimup'oq, which specially means that the harpooned seal ‘drags 
the hunting bladder about with it on the water’, or that the sledge dog ‘draws 
the sledge behind it.’ — 23. WGr. регдир`а` ‘bends or bows over it’ (for example, 
the man in the kaiak over the oar, as he holds it up against his abdomen); 
or ‘to bend something by pressing it against onself while inclining over it’, 
(Kleinschmidt, Ordbog р. 293). anersaiora, the suffix is the pleonastic -104 ‘also, 
again.’ — 24. atergor- (why -gor?). Kuannia was led to think of a stem of a 
somewhat different form (arter-) arriving at another explanation: ‘that I had 
scarcely succeeded in getting to land.’ Cf. no. 105, 1. 13-15. 
