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Language and Folklore. 
List of Texts in Prose 
collected by the author at Ammassalik in 1905—06. 
MATERIAL AND SELECTION. — These tales and many other prose notes I 
wrote down with my own hand, all in phonetic spelling (cf. p. 117). Only a 
very few, marked here with an asterisk *, were given to me in manuscript 
form by two young natives, Kaaralik and Okusuk, who had been taught to 
write by the missionary as part of their training toward becoming catechists. 
Their notes, without consistent spelling, are in a by no means entirely correct, 
and yet on the whole genuine East Greenlandic. The numbers marked thus, 
(#), are written down both by me and by these two natives. — Further we 
have before us a manuscript of earlier date containing six tales written down 
by Johannes Hansen (Hansérak) during his participation in Holm’s and Garde’s 
Expedition to Ammassalik, but translated into his own West Greenland dialect. 
Finally, from more modern times there are various records of old traditions, 
made on the initiative of the manager of the colony, JOHAN PETERSEN, or by 
the officials of the mission; I have for instance lying before me two small 
collections, — among which are several old legends, — written down during 
1914—15 near Ammassalik by two young natives, baptized in Christian bap- 
tism, JAMES and SOREN. 
However, here, in the selection which follows, I have preferred not to 
make use of notes made by natives, and have only drawn upon my own 
material, i.e. notes made personally in 1905—06. 
Informants Names of the tales DID Date of | References а Kt: 
os (m) = man (legends etc.) ag recording veed 6 
|| (w) = woman 3 i Pom | ©| the list | First Part |3 3 
в AakWkaaq (w) Timmojook DD Jan. 06 : Få $ (2) 
9 » Sun and Moon DD&Phon. » 1, 9% BS I, 10 
3 | Ajukutoog (m) | The woman who married DD June 06 | 67, 76 1220 
| a dog 
4 | Akernilik (m) The man of the Moon de- DD Oct. 05 43 I, 30, (31) 
scends to the earth 
5 » The fool DD Febr. 06 9 
6 » |[On tupilaks| DD » 
7 » Sun and Moon DD&Phon.| May 06 | 2, 9, 58 I, 10 
8 | Aleqaajik (w) The first man who died DD » DT 58 
9 » Sun and Moon DD » 
10 | Anittanne (m) | Nattatten DD Jan. 06 74 I, Ÿ A 
11 | Atterujuk (m) Fearful hunger DD Oct. 05 
12 | Attiartertoq (m) | Orssuwiag “Blubber-stone’ |DD&Phon.| June 06 30 
13 | Kaaralik (m) Qilaatuar “Big Drum’ DD(*) | Jan. 06 41 os S 
14 » Kammikin“Ynak DD (*) » ma A 
15 » Кола (Kuta or Kula) — * » UP. 2 
16 » Kik“kartsiänniwaaje DD Febr. 06 в x: 2 
17 » Uleewaaitsiaq DD (*) » 56 cf. I, 6 (end) S (2) 
18 » Appajameeq DD (*) » ae A 
19 » Naniwara ‘The Bear s Cub’ DD » I, 36 
20 » Qatitaawji (or Qatutaaje) DD D x S 
21 » Attaalisaanaain DD » 
29 » Kaatatik’s son —* » cf. I, 6 A 
23 | Kättuaraee (m) | Fight with Timerseet DD Jan. 06 
24 » Spouses quarreling DD » 
25 » Murder of a kinsman DD » 
26 » The troll woman and the |DD&Phon.| Febr. 06 29, 71, 110 
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