Language and Folklore. 4.25, 
They covered him with stones. When night came, it happened quite 
as they had expected, a person came strolling along and began to 
remove the stone-weights;“ he began quickly to remove the stones 
(saying): “How crushed he is, poor thing! How dripping wet it is 
in there by him, poor thing!” ®) Tying his feet together he carried him 
off on his shoulders. The stones, a stone — he (the person from the 
grave) seized hold of it. He (the bearer) nearly stumbled.“ When he 
reached home his wife dragged the man up and brought him in. ® 
There were two children (inside there). [They shouted]: “Mine (to me) 
the intestines (?) ! (to me) the intestines!’ His wife said to them: “Your 
father’s the intestines (shall be). 9 “Mine the heart-strings, mine the 
heart-strings (?)” * — “Your father’s the heart-strings, (they shall be).” 
— “Mine the hands, mine the hands.” — “Your father’s the hands.” 
— “Mine the toes, mine the toes.” — “Your father’s the toes.” — (One 
of the children says) “Oh! oh! he is opening his eyes!” (1) — The 
father says: “Thus (he lies as) I laid him to sleep on his pillow.’ — 
He (the sleeper) cut the troll’s head off (and) went out.” Later than 
this his (the troll’s) wife (went out). Koopajeeg pursued him.“ — “How 
did you get over (or through) them (the obstacles)?” (9 — (The troll- 
woman’s answer:) “Over all, through all, I slip unscathed, wherever 
it may be. The great inland lake, the great river, from one end to 
another, emptying them I cross over (them).” 19 — “Then drink !”’ — 
She began to drink, to drink, to drink. While she was drinking (a 
noise was heard, thus) дада дада. — She (stopped and) began to drink 
again: “дааа дада, no! (now I can no more). 4) And so she burst. 
— End, end, end of this too. 
No. 223. Koopajeeq IV 
or 
Koopajeeq, the troll-woman in bewitching talk with 
the Inuk Kaiak-man. 
the Cape Farewell district in South Greenland. The motive, human fingers 
among berries, is known earlier from the tale about Giviog (Rink I, no. 21). 
The form of the tale is such that it might almost have served as the 
direction for a short drama with two dramatis personae. 
А. Аатадееа. * 4) 
“Little kaiak-man, approach!” Не approaches.” “Get out of the 
kaiak!” He gets out. ® “Go up!” He goes up.“ “Come in!” He comes 
in.® “What, shall not he either (also) at once have something to 
eat?” (9 She begins to scrape the remains from her wooden plate. 4! 
Then she goes out (and brings back) a large portion miserable black 
crow-berries. “Eat them!” He begins to eat them;“ among them 
lie fingers of a human being clutching at the berries.“ He says: 
“I, from that nasty kind of thing, I keep away (abstain). * — “He 
there, (is one who) abstains from eating human flesh!’’@) At that 
she went out again.“ “These poor frozen vegetables here, eat them!” 
He begins to eat them, has nearly finished.“” He says: “Why are 
they so slimy?’ (9 — “Have you begun to eat of the human flesh? 
This is why they are so slimy: (it comes) from the fried-out fat of 
