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(and) became well (and) began to be pregnant.% She, who had never 
given birth, began now to approach her time.” In the morning when 
she wakened she would have gone out of doors with the others, (but) 
because she began to thirst ever, very much, she began to be flip- 
pant and untractable®) They who went out would have been glad 
to have her with them (but she said): “I will beat you, take care, 
I will presently give you a sound thrashing.*”’ She discovers soon after 
that with his little heel he begins to come forth®), his big eyes will 
come out.©? — “Let him come out! There is one who wishes to 
come out! Let him receive a push in your door of exit!” 
When the child had come out, and they were to give it a name, 
it would pronounce the name, Niwangiaq®”, it began to weep bitterly, 
saying: “I am Niwaniaq, ава!” ©» — Well, at last they understood 
what it had been trying to say all the time: “I am Niwaniaq, he 
says quite distinctly, oh!” — They others became also eagerly de- 
sirous of saying it loud and clear ©: “We are Niwangiaq! He is 
Niwangiaq!” They say Niwaniag.©? After they had given him the 
name, Niwangiaq, he began to thrive well, and gain strength. “) — In 
the old man it became a fairy-tale. His successors have constantly 
told it further. 
* (2) — peariara'yame (Aleqaajik‘s variant) < pe-awoq? ‘is and continues 
thus.’ + -riar (epic suffix) + - ra'r ‘is through with.’ 
** (2) Or ‘without having had anything to drink.’ It may refer to the cus- 
tom under pagan baptism of giving the children their name in with a few 
drops of water (“they drink in their name”). 
* (3) Literally, ‘they bound a mitten about its muzzle.’ 
=D Cf. WGr. *serterpog ‘is thievish.’ 
* (11) sitia is in WGr. the milky way (considered the diameter of heaven, 
or the line of incision); in EGr. the word seems rather to apply to the horizon. 
— Marhre corrected qila sit'ia to ima'sitia and remarked: “The ocean, too, has 
a sittia, it was that N. kicked at.” 
* (18) Cf. WGr. aterag ‘a shoe or slipper.’ Here the amulet is way of mak- 
ing the man invisible to the seal. 
== (18) Cf. WGr. anerteriwog + -usaq + -lior(pog) + (r)naq. 
* (29) Slangish, cf. WGr. ajak-a'rpoq ‘(a pole or something similar) strikes 
against with the ends, as it was to be turned around and placed in another 
position.’ 
*(31) patisca ‘the inner entrance door of a house, bounded by two up- 
right stones.’ Here metaphorically used about the exit of her womb. 
[BY] No. 219. Aqåttiaq and the Ingalilik. 
a whole cycle of tales from West Greenland.! It is the first time that his 
name and the myth about him has been demonstrated from East Greenland. 
According to Rink’s record Aqissiaq was the son of an inland giant who 
had an Inuk woman from the coast for his wife. The inland giant had stolen 
— 119, (greatly abbreviated). Thalbitzer, Gronlandske Sagn om Eskimoernes 
Fortid (1913). 
