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keel near the bow and stern’, seems to be used here in a figurative sense. A 
similar description of a monster is given in no. 234 (60). 
(24) Solemn word about the dead, literally ‘the everlastingly silenced.’ 
Meeting and intercourse with the inhabitants of the grave form the intro- 
duction to the training of an angakok-apprentice. 
(27) uwipivartilik. Here, as in what follows (notes 28—33), we are dealing 
with the same expression and idea as in no. 230 (notes 3—4; 7, 8). For a 
long time I was not clear as to the meaning. Aawtaaritaa withhout hesitation 
translated the word by “whistling,” cf. WGr. uwintartorpog. In the other 
combinations in which the word is found in these East Greenland texts, 
the root does not terminate in -iar but in -i (uwipi-). 
(31)* Namely on account of fear. Literally. ‘to another (place) we are 
unable (to have recourse?)’. As in dreams it is impossible to flee from the 
frightful. — In regard to the meaning of iwerpa‘, ‘creeps into him or it.’ see 
note 57. — alip-atigin cf. either WGr. alup'a” or alip-a:. 
** Aawtaaritaa added: from below (i. e. through the anus). WGr. alup:a' 
‘licks’ or < alip:a' ‘slashes’ (i. e. slashes in us, or slashes his way into us?). 
(33) uwinileqar. Cf. note 27, and in 35 uwine'llisaq. 
(38) e'rtipara, perhaps: ‘I did not get up to it (before it began to rock greatly). 
The interpretation of e:’rtip'ara gives scope for several possibilities, for in- 
stance, ‘I made it ready or prepared it’ (corresponding to WGr. inertip'ara) or 
‘I brought to pass that he or it was not reached, attained’ (WGr. inortip:ara), 
— in reality two conflicting interpretations. However J. Petersen did not 
hesitate to give that solution, WGr. ers:ip-ara ‘I got sight of it’ (transitive 
form of erssipona, ‘I became visible’), although I am very dubious in the 
matter as in the text recorded by me the form is e'r not er. 
(40) e--käta'ilua is probably derived from inv'p:ogq or inunawog ‘is too 
short’; ‘does not suffice.’ Perhaps e is contracted from ino-, while in the 
next syllables are hidden East Greenland equivalents for the WGr. suffixes 
(g)azar- ‘yet, for the present’ and -ara‘‘soq ‘being in the habit of —’, the whole 
word in WGr. inv-k-at-araraisona of which arara.i > EGr. a‘ with strong 
assimilation (haplology). 
(42) * Teemiartissaq pointed to her thighs. 
* The reference is to those who have buried and bound the body in the 
grave. The corpse is wrapped in hides which are often tightly bound about it. 
| (47)* Teemiartissaq imitated the tone. — tikisimajar — It is uncertain whe- 
ther the ending -jar here correspond to the WGr. -ja:r ‘early, too early, or 
whether -simijar is a special EGr. form = -sima:r ‘haying been for a long 
time. In the next word, -{oa is presumably derived from the suffix WGr. 
-tuar- ‘the only’ (or ‘private’), and used here to recall the fact that every 
angakok has his special foornaartik, the oracle and messenger among his 
assistant spirits. 
(48) * Teemiartissaq’s deceased step-father was named Taqisima, (according 
to Johan Petersen) and lies buried behind the parsonage near the Danish 
colony. nåt:enaqa:oq expresses the deep sorrow of the survivor. 
(50) In“nartiwaq, (“the great cliff wall”), is the name of a previously in- 
habited spot in the lower end of Sermilik-Fjord on its eastern shore. Who 
the two ‘oldest’ are is not told. 
(53) * WGr. qar-arpoq ‘it is raised up from within (for instance a wave of 
the sea); it rises, raises himself up.’ The being comes from the river. 
