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too ?’— She took a wooden plate away, went out (and) came in. Frozen 
vegetables, preserved in blubber.(? He began to eat them. He spoke 
thus, “Why are these so wet and slimy?’ 9%) They were very wet and 
slimy.“5) She went again down (to the beach) (and) came in again. 
Crow berries.“® Kuyaaq’s * fingers (lay among them) clutching the 
berries. (9 — “I must say, have you (mixed?) melted blubber * in 
this?” 49 — “(It is) because there is a wretched human being (inuk) 
(in it).” 49 — “That kind of thing I must not eat.” — As she rose to 
go out, he went out. The stern of his kaiak he took hold of it 
wrong (in the hurry).? The day after he visited her (again). & — 
“Get out (of the kaiak)!” CY — “Yesterday you bewitched me.” ©?) — 
“It was not I who bewitched you, it was the little one up there (in 
the hood), it was the little charmer(?) * who bewitched you.” &) — 
“Ay, ay! look at the child in the amaut, the little troll.” — “It is a 
good little thing up there.”®9— “The child in the amaut, the little troll.” 
She drew it out (and) threw stones on it.©” From its head she made 
a new wooden plate to eat from for herself.  Herewith ends it. 
Kookpaajee end. 
hd No. 224. Uleewaaitsiaq. 
sealing-tool’; he stretched his line between the islands here near Ammassalik. 
Once he even caught four inland-dwellers (Timerseet) in his line, so strong 
he was,” Mitsuarnianna added. 
In this giant of old who dragged sea-monsters ashore so that the skin 
was flayed from them, (cf. Holm’s version), I find a reminiscence of the 
tradition of the southernmost West Greenlanders about Olauwaarssuag, the 
last Norse chieftain, Oonortog’s friend, who also, (just like Uliwaaitsiag in 
the legend from Ammassalik) drags a captured seal behind him.! These old 
names from South Greenland are, no doubt, of Scandinavian origin from the 
colonisation period of the Norsemen. “The great Olauwaaq” must have been 
a fjord-dweller of Icelandic descent, with the Icelandic name, Olafr, just as 
Oonortog was perhaps originally Yngvarr. In South Greenland there is the 
fragment of a legend about the latter. 2 
I suppose the name, Uleewaaitsiag to be the same as SGr. Olauwaarsuaq, 
only somewhat distorted and etymologized (cf. EGr. ulewik ‘a skin’ with the 
suffix -{siaq ‘the little’, instead of -rsuaq ‘the great’). The inhabitants of Am- 
massalik, as shown by Holm and later substantiated further by information 
I received, were acquainted with the traditions about the encounters in 
South Greenland between the Norsemen and the Eskimo natives.? My ident- 
ification here of another name of Norse origin gives further proof that, at 
the close of the Middle Ages, the forefathers of the inhabitants of Ammas- 
salik had some traditional connection with the inhabitants of the Cape 
Farewell district. 
Young Kaaralik who dictated this story to me lacked practice in story- 
1 CR First Part, jo. 702—703. 2 ibid. 1. © p. 705—707. © © Holm, First Part, 
р. 134—131 and myself ibid. p. 332 and 708. Cf. too, an article in “Atlanten”, 1912 
(p. 253—262, “Nordboruiner i Østgrønland”). 
