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gajuälsiwartiwar 13 A large young common seal. 
in tlitinuarpara 14 I stabbed it with my harpoon (or bird-dart?) 
ga rlana rit ino 15 So that I lost the bone-point of my weapon. 
со-гсо-г ta min’ à 16 Why! What do you want? Is it thus 
anercarterg”iy alt 17 You encourage me to sing — why? 
NOTES. — 1-2. con‘on, cf. co:ro'n, 116, 40. — 4. Literally “my urethra is’ 
etc. — 5. co‘rcor, cf. nos. 41 and 195. The suffix -te'rq?in:a'it perhaps answers 
to -lerquwinina-ait. — 6. -n'e for -n'um ог -?пиу (instrumental) as so often 
the case. — 9. -{unu for WGr. -z‘unuk. — 10. In this and the following lines 
the angakok seems to speak on his own account. My reciter explained it so, 
saying that what was aimed at was the light or dawn which arises in the 
angakok’s mind as he sits before the rattle-skin in the hut during his per- 
formance, while the drum dances on his head. In this light he saw Mangertaq 
and Unookajik appear far away out on the ice.— 13. gajuartiwar, in the language 
of the mourners, is the same as a sak'aq ‘common seal.’ — 14-15. Here the 
translation follows the reciter’s explanation: cf. WGr. п) 1а ‘its point. ga‘rtama't 
is the Eeajuätsiaq people’s term for what the usual East Greenlander calls 
ki*k-aq ‘bone’, ‘knuckle’; here referring to the bone material from which the 
harpoon-point is made. — 17. Cf. I. 5. 
Мо. 111. Song of Quppisaaq, the Assistant Spirit. 
Ajukutoog. 
AkWko’s assistant spirit Quppisaaq had а song, the words of which his 
son Ajukutoog would not tell me. I only succeeded in persuading him to sing 
the melody and the refrain. 
The refrain: aja’ ja: ja 
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arta: ja 
No. 112. The Song of the Dead. 
Mitsuarnianna. 
The first singer of this song lived (according to the reciter) at Ammas- 
salik, and “was old when the present elders were born.” It is a song “about 
the time when there were not many people on earth, but too many in the 
heavens. When an angakok from here later on met this person in the heavens, 
he was still singing the same song” (which, possibly, was originally longer). 
Kuannia also knew the song. 
Refrain gawo'aja Je:ja ] 
ро`а рипоагата 1 Up there when I had the fortune to come 
ewin togucarpun 2 The people had ceased to die. 
NOTE. — ‘Up there’ viz. in the heavens. 
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