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Refrain & ja ja: ja‘ja 
в ja ва jajaı 
Y Er CPR je 
1 tatararqa siwanamyija a 
2 tatårårqa' ОО soo 
VARIANTS. — A 10. ercigaidwname. — В 9-10. kisime'rain’amik. 
NOTES. — 1. As sila- may refer not only to the open space outside the 
body (or the house, the fiord, etc.), but also to man’s consciousness, it may 
be that the translation here should be: ‘when I awoke to consciousness (from 
sleep, dream, or ecstacy)’. — isimanan‘iwe'l (or -win В) contains the imper- 
sonal infix -nar-, which generally means the first person (‘one = ‘T’). Another 
form of the interpretation would be thus: “It came into my thoughts, indeed!” 
—- 2. kiåte'- is interpreted analogously with siläte‘- in line 1, as derived from 
a word of locality, cf. WGr. kiatanerpa’ ‘occupies the space north of him or 
his house. — 6. mat'ale‘rak'o lit. “When (or because) I began to drag his 
skin jacket off him’. Kuannia explained this word together with sianinim'agin 
‘because he had no (consciousness of them)’, therefore comprehending it, as 
it seems, in a metaphorical sense, about like ‘when I began to unveil him,’ 
perhaps the same thing as ‘to open his eyes’, or ‘when I began to unveil it’ 
(= ‘disclose, reveal it ?). — 7. ak:ilsan‘itsin might possibly (having regard 
also to lines 9-10) be understood as referring to the opponent’s followers and 
assistants ‘who will not come’, so that he comes to stand alone before his 
assaillant. — 9-10. The text is probably distorted here. Sufia read the first 
word of each line as kisime'mane, while according to another interpretation 
1.9 should read kisime:nermik qunuraje'nermik (cf. В). In any case the mean- 
ing may be that one or two men face alone together the many assaillants 
who fear them. 
No. 197. They Scare Each Other: 
Peetannaait A (and Ukuttiaq B). 
Ukuttiag said: “When the drum singer looks calmly away from his op- 
ponent the latter gets a notion of his superiority and is filled with fear. In 
this way he becomes scared.” 
tn'ertiwa: umutukun 1 While I sang drum-songs in the evening 
istmanilarmiak:o 2 I indeed often happened to think of 
kite-sakun ila:'n 3 One of them out there (to the east) at the 
outer coast (the islands) 
ae Miata thar ia 4 
taker’a:niwak:o 5 That when I first saw him, 
alananea qun:at 6 He turned his face away, 
ercisa‘rniagiumn ай 7 Because he would scare (me). 
owana ercisakajip'oa 8 I scare (now) to the best of my ability 
alanan'in'artimin 9 Him who continually turns away his face, 
sakiler’niantttmin 10 Him who does not want to attack. 
VARTANRS == Gk Jeremy eo, —= 4, TN Tata AE TURC 
(instead of -min). — 10. sak-isarniapit-imun. 
