342 W. THALBITZER. 
older well-known song. This song is identical with the first part of a drum- 
song given by Rosing (1. с. pp. 64—66) which, however, lacks the lines 4, 5, 6, 
10, and 11 of my version, whereas mine lacks lines 1, 9, and 13 of his. Mine 
is naturally recorded in East Greenlandic, whereas he renders his in the 
WGr. dialect. In addition, the lines are given in quite different order in the 
two versions, as is evident from the following comparison. 
NakWkaaqy № 2.39415 0 7 SY NO UN ЕЕ ao 
Rosing DANS ON TO ELSE HAS О 
Refrain TC 
nakimaniwvar tartiwa 1 I am at present often a little dispirited, 
larimapiwar tartiwa 2 I am at present often a little despondent, 
piyalitoar nerpo a 3 I wonder how it will end? 
iwera lit o'arpo'a 4 Must I now really hold drum-combat ? 
nakim:a te yit’070 5 Therefore I am a little dispirited, 
larFima te: nit-ono 6 Therefore I am a little despondent, 
puin'ik-arawil 7 Because you have never forgotten (it). 
anerFa: "na 8 Fortunate that he is what he is! 
oatonona tn ilag 9 He does not resemble me, he! 
‘ant qian ila rina 10 Let him only show himself in his full strength! 
lakiqin'an'ila rina 11 Let him only raise himself to his full length! 
nukeqakain'ane 12 Being (he) himself without strength, 
qajanerpalininnama 13 As I by no means appear to be frail (weak), 
puluik:a'rawi” 14 Because you never have forgotten (it), 
nätutasuvalino:" 15 That you intended with all strength to break 
(them) in fragments 
awaliyiaka make 16 These my dear little fingers and toes, 
canijiwak:a make 17 These my dear little bones! 
NOTES. — 2. Said of one who goes about in thought without doing 
anything. The word is probably related to WGr. tarriwoq ‘goes idling about 
without performing anything’, ‘roves about in the night (vociferously) but 
in the vocabularies it is not found in the form farsiwoq. Rosing, however, in 
the text of his drum song renders it in the common form {arsiman'uäL'artuna, 
as if it were known to him from West Greenland. (I suppose we have not 
here to deal with another word from the stem fa‘q: ta'rqorpoq ‘goes about 
or sits in thought’(?)). — 10-11. The infix -gin’a- connected with the negative 
must presumably acquire the converse meaning of ‘would that he — not’, 
therefore something like ‘let him only do it’, as ‘even if he will he dare not 
or cannot’ is understood. — 15. The termination -siwalino'n (or Var. -put) 
seems incomprehensible. Kuannia took it for a distorted form of -soralono. — 
1 After this line Rosing has an inserted line, which no doubt appertains to the 
song (I transcribe it into East Greenlandic): ma'rerpaliy’'inam'a (cf. по. 166 
1. 18) ‘because you did not seem to treat me circumspectly.’ 
2 After this line Rosing has nukitcagakasiane ‘being without prospect of 
strength.’ 
