УП. TRADITIONS IN PROSE 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
Collections of Greenlandic folk-lore and prose traditions issued earlier. 
(Cf. list of works at the end of the volume.) 
‘Hans Egede (1741) Kaladlit okalluktualliait, four vols.| C. Lytzen (1874) 
(1859—60) 2 G. Holm (1888) 
Paul Egede (1788) Kaladlit assilialiait (1860) 3 A. L. Kroeber (1899) 
A. Arctander (1793) 1 | H. Rink (1866) W. Thalbitzer (1904) 
С. Pingel (1845) 1 » (1871) K. Rasmussen (1905) 
C. Rosen (1859) » (1875) » (1906) 
В. Trebitsch (1910) 
Besides the various kinds of poems which occupied so important 
a place in the spiritual culture of the Ammassalik Eskimo, there was 
also a great wealth of prose-literature, handed down by word of mouth 
from olden times. I made notes or phonographic records of various 
hitherto unknown contributions in addition to those known from G. 
Ногм’5 Expedition. The greater part of my records have indeed paral- 
lels or variants in Rınk’s and KNUD RASMUSSEN’S Important collections 
_from the West Coast, but several seem to be new i. e. unknown in 
the earlier collections, namely in the affixed list (pp. 381—383) nos. 1, 
8, 10, 18, 18, 16, 18, 195 20, IE BHO), 878) se) 59, 62, 63, 64 (?), 66, 
68, 69, (74= 10), 90, 92.2), (95 = 68), 96(2), (97 = 66), 98 (2), 104, 105. 
Due to lack of space I am only publishing a small selected part 
of my material, for if I included it all my book would exceed all 
bounds. Many of the new contributions to the folk-lore of the Am- 
massalik Eskimo, even have been omitted on this occasion. My main 
purpose has been to reproduce certain of the classical legends of the 
people in an almost literal translation parallel with the original Eskimo 
text. The division of the tales is not “historical”, nor geographical (as 
was attempted earlier in my "Grønlandske Sagn om Eskimoernes For- 
tid”), but in the first four groups takes into consideration general qual- 
ificative points-of-view in the science of folk-lore, in the two last 
groups the special nature of the information. They are 
Myths and mythological descriptions. 
. Legends about prehistoric tribes and foreign neighbors (Erqilik, 
Inalilik, etc.). 
Legends about prehistoric heroes (Uiarteq, Kaatatik etc.). 
Fairy-tales and fables (e. g. no. 30 Orssuiaq, no. 89 The Geese). 
. Episodes from daily life (hunting-stories, etc.). 
. Teemiartissaq’s autobiographical accounts. 
Nm SR WD 
1 See First Part p. 699—701. 
2 Rink’s collection of folk-tales etc. printed in Greenland by Lars Møller. 
3 Wood cut illustrations made by. Lars Møller. 
