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the angakok wisdom and the beings by whose strength I should have 
become an angakok.” “?)— “Yes, indeed!” I almost shouted as I caught 
hold of my elder brother. I then asked him: “Who is that, north, 
who has raised all the many tents? Who is it?” (6% — Then he an- 
swered: “It there in the north (is) your mother-in-law, your hus- 
band’s mother, (she) arranged there in the north when she was dead, 
when she had fallen asleep.” — Then I said again: “Indeed! now 
I am going to leave you.” 65) 
While I wept my elder brother descended, I myself ascended, 
weeping from grief, and crawled up to the boundary of this world.“ 
Then (I found) my husband trembling. * — “Hey! hey!” (I screamed), 
acting like one who has an assistant spirit,** “I wanted to descend to 
my relative.* I saw him in a vision. When I had seen him I had hard 
work to restrain my weeping.” —I spoke thus: That I had dreamed 
in the night that I was out there in the deep. I dissembled — neverthe- 
less it was true. I had been together with my departed relatives. 
not be construed parallel to the following sa'p:a' (with long a) 3rd person 
singular possessive (‘he—him'). sorajap'a may come from so(q) ‘what, ‘some- 
thing, cf. sogarpog ‘there is something’ and the suffix -javog with the nega- 
tive i(p): -Jaippoq ‘not easy to—’; the whole of it meaning, then: ‘there is 
not easily anything (to be found)’ put interrogatively with answer expected in 
the negative: ‘yes there is.’ 
(20) te”na, cf. later tä®na, teä®na, is only a hasty pronunciation of {äsä®na 
(< tà-sä®na ‘that down yonder’). 
(21) ivn-ivn-iwaq is the EGr. form for WGr. im'inp'uaq, which is explained 
by Kleinschmidt (Gronl. Ordbog, р. 106) as “a rather large fish (3—4 feet 
long) etc.... (a little fish of similar appearance is said to be sometimes found 
in the inland lakes).” According to the narrator’s explanation, we have here 
to do with a little animal in the water, the size of one’s hand. Cf. no. 228, 
note 14. 
(23) WGr. sorujuk ‘unclean things, which hang in something, or come on 
it; for example leaves and earth which the wind has drifted on the snow 
(Kleinschmidt, Ordbog, p. 334). 
24) amak-iwdt < a: (vocative) + 3rd person possessive of mak'e ‘these’: 
‘see them these,’ i. e. ‘see these specimens of their kind.’ This enumeration 
of different kinds of seals and other marine animals comes as a surprise. 
Perhaps Teemiartissaq has skipped a link in the story, or she has condensed 
the foxes’ conversation. an'ertiwakaje: lit. ‘big seal’ (= ‘bearded seal’ ‘phoca 
barbata’) is a word imported from the south, as puilertiwaq was tabooed on 
account of a death; this latter had been coined even earlier, in order to 
displace the original ut’uk (WGr. us’uk) when this was tabooed. The next 
four words signify the distinctive ages of common seals; nalanin-aq, “Green- 
land seal’, is likewise a compensatory word for the original a:ta'q (thus in 
West Greenland). atät'eq answers to WGr. аг'аЁо`4 ‘a Greenland seal in its 
2nd or 3rd year’; literally ‘the strongly spotted one, with black figures on 
the skin.’ — cäcs- or tdcsaralin (plural) is no doubt the same marine animal 
which was mentioned in a magic formula (no. 60, р. 258) as täs’'aralite‘q ‘a 
walrus’ (in the sacred language). Teemiartissaq has by mistake first given 
the common all-day word (a-rit) and corrects it at once by giving the more 
solemn designation. The latter seems to mean literally: ‘one which raises 
and stretches its neck (in order to look out).’ 
