Language and Folklore (Supplement). 497 
From the region around Cape Farewell some few collections 
of folklore have already been made in earlier years especially by 
H. Rink (published in 1866 and 1871), Lyrzen (1874) and Knup 
RASMUSSEN (1906), cf. р. 379. — Of the material collected during my 
excursion in 1914 only the poetical part is published here, namely 
the lyrical-epic poems, petting songs of mothers for their babies, 
children’s songs, kaiak songs and drum songs. Some of these poems 
are merely variants of texts I noted earlier from Ammassalik, namely 
one petting song (no. 238), three epic-lyrical songs (nos. 252, 253, 260) 
and a drum song (no. 271). Others originate from more southern 
places on the east coast and bear the same old-fashioned stamp as 
those from Ammassalik. The remaining part are of local origin in 
the region where I found them and are more or less influenced by 
the presence of the Europeans. The poems of HENDRIK LUND are 
even of a quite modern and artistic character. 
While nothing of this material of mine — including Eskimo folk- 
lore of East Greenland origin — has been published so far I append 
some selected samples from my earlier collections of West Greenland 
folklore (Phon. Study, 1904, p. 271—387), accompanied by some new 
remarks and corrections. 
I. FROM THE CAPE FAREWELL DISTRICT 
A. PETTING SONGS AND NURSERY RHYMES 
(Nos. 238—251.) 
These are genuine petting songs (SGr. aga’”tit) to be recited to 
infants. They are the veritable fruits of maternal happines along 
the southernmost coasts of Greenland. Apart from the variants of 
texts already known from Ammassalik (just mentioned above) these 
are of a quite local and recent origin, and their character is very 
different from the petting songs I found near Ammassalik. The only 
one from Ammassalik which resembles the southern specimens in 
character is no. 15 (p. 206), a modern petting song, which fact 
strengthens our suspicion that the prevailing style of European cul- 
ture introduced in ditties, in cradle songs and Christian hymns has 
exerted a certain influence on the recent productions of this nature 
also in the secluded region near Cape Farewell. Especially is this 
true of the petting songs communicated to me by Lukas (Lucas), an 
old school-master who lived at Sammisoq. They are a kind of pane- 
gyric either intoned or sung to a psalm-like melody for the baby. 
These slightly Europeanized products which contain merely a germ of 
paganism are, however, interesting in that they show how contact with 
European culture penetrates quietly and innocently to the heart of 
intimate poetry, even in this remote corner of Greenland. 
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