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freed from the stone weighing it down. Using his fibula (the bone of 
his calf) for his drum-stick and his shoulder-blade as his drum, (9 
dancing, drumming and singing he said: “When you bade me arise, 
I arose.’ — At these words the umiaks capsized. Again dancing and 
beating his drum, turned to the other side: “You bade me arise, — 
I arose —.” (22) Many umiaks capsized, only those umiaks bearing in 
the prow and stern amulets of a human shape, — in the bow that of 
a woman, in the stern a man, — could not capsize on that account. 
[Bd] No. 228. Orsuiaq, the Blubber-stone. 
means “the little singer” *, (but B contains another conclusion which merely 
shows the stone burning or glowing). The Eskimo have several legends about 
people transformed to stone. A legend in Rink’s collection (I, 1866, no. 43) tells 
of a human being who, after a long dance is transformed into an orsuiaq- 
stone. 
Å. 
He began to row away, he rowed, rowed, far far away, caught 
sight of a house from which smoke arose, went into it.“ When he 
was through bending over (creeping through the passage of the house) 
beside the lamp (he saw) a paunch-bellied woman, a stone, a blubber- 
stone. (He found something and) began to eat it. After having eaten 
it, © after he had finished eating, he laid himself up on the inner- 
most part of the platform to sleep. Out there (in the passage) some 
one was heard coming in. When he had come through, when he 
had made the many bendings, he was finally heard to say some 
words. ® — “Where are the food-remains of your great thumping 
son?” — (Some time passed) finally his ugly crone (answered): “Our 
visitor has eaten them; ® he, the visitor, that thumping fellow has 
seated himself on the innermost part of the platform and pulled 
off his boots.” © — “Let him appear, let him have someone to eat 
with!’ — He appeared (revealed himself). As soon as he had ap- 
peared he began to eat with him. When he had finished eating (he 
said) : “What is it that they out there (by the coast, the Inuit) gos- 
sip about?” “That you are a murderer, that’s what they gossip 
about.” & — “Yes, indeed, yes.” — “You give me (I hope) a stone 
point for my weapon.” — “A stone-point —let me supply you with 
a new stone-point!® When you go hunting, cast not in vain! Be 
sure of hitting so that the others will be astonished!” (49 — Because 
he caused his wife to fall down (on the floor), because he caused her 
to fall down in the passage a mighty crash (was heard) when she 
fell.“ Transformed into a flounder she swam quickly out (into the 
sea). He himself fell down along the steep little edge |?] (moving) 
outwards: 19 “qa—jaa—eehre—jaa—jee’. — 
Outwards, singing, he swam off. So he became an Ü’npiypiwag 
(‘а little i'’nneq’, a. kind of fish). * 19 
been found also near Ammassalik, cf. Ad. Jensen (1903) p. 271. It is now called 
Macrurus Fabricii. (Cf. no. 230 2). 
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