354 W. THALBITZER. 
påtilun uartinik 12 Of their little fights! 
pate:lua:meame 13 What a pity that he continually trounces her! 
awo'a jaja | 
nipa'geta(r)p'an a 14 Why did he suddenly become angry, he up 
there in the west? 
patik”e tap'an'a 15 Why did he all at once trounce her, he up 
awoarjaja there in the west? 
kisiäne: nor pin'ilar 16 She, in any case, is innocent! 
awo:a‘ja‘ja 
nulian-e’nor pig'ilar 17 Your wife is, in any case, innocent! 
awo'ajaja 
ava: Lüs an aan 18 He there in the south is envious of you, 
nulid??n-t* because of your wife. 
VARIANTS — 3. e‘rianuwiartiwa. — 6. tutfiasap'im'age. — 16. kisidne-“’na. 
NOTES. — 1. = WGr. kinalo'q kiwitarL'oma might also be translated thus: 
‘would someone would lift me.’ I understand the expression as an invocation 
addressed to his forefathers for inspiration. Compare Maratti’s drum song in 
Kruuse (1. с. р. 35, no. 6), which begins “I will lift myself up in a song from 
old times, I will sing a song with the breath of my forefathers.” — 5. A 
paraphrase of the female sex. — 6. WGr. Zus’iarpog, in Egede tuksiarpok 
(Dictionarium р. 191), 1) ss. ‘asks, begs’, 2) c.s. ‘calls out to, calls to one.’ In 
all later dictionaries from West Greenland this word is only given in the 
meaning assigned to it by the missionaries, 1) ‘prays to God’, 2) sings psalms. 
— 7. WGr. pargasa'rpog, literally ‘represents oneself as dry’, means so much 
as: ‘prays about to helping one, begs, supplicates.’ As to the suffix, cf. WGr. 
-tseriarpog + -(g)iwog. — 8. <cilat, interjection, and d®n'a, ‘he in the south.’ — 
16-17. The termination -(n)e'”nor (and -(n)e ”na) = ina, cf. no. 17078, 195%, 
200° (also 184872). — 18. СЁ \ г. tusuga:. 
Мо. 195. Drum Song оп ап Angakok Pupil. 
Anitttänne. | 
As regards this song Kuannia was of the opinion that it was not meant 
quite seriously, but was, as these songs often are, a sort of comedy enacted 
for the pleasure of the two “opponents” and their audience. In lines 1—9 the 
singer addresses either himself or the audience, from 1. 19 his opponent. 
The orphan (1. 19) means (according to Sufia) the singer himself. The follow- 
ing lines sound like the report of a conversation and may be considered a 
criticism of the opponent in his capacity of angakok, or perhaps indicate that 
he is called angakok without having completed his training for that office. 
When the pupil’s training and hiding-place are betrayed before the expiration 
of the apprenticeship the embryo angakok loses all chance of further training, 
and must for ever forgo becoming angakok. 
qa пет! ce ша 1 What luck will I have in that drum contest 
iwilerce akiniaitonolo 2 As I will revenge myself on him who began? 
qgane:nid: c'e wa 3 What luck will I have in that drum contest 
