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528 W. THALBITZER. 
No. 275. A petting song with remnants of a drumfight motive. 
Arnatté Juliane (Uperniwik Nooa, Umanak). 
(Phon. Study p. 292, no. 7.) 
This is a nursery rhyme or petting song which is formed like a drum- 
fight song (with refrain etc.) or is a combination of both, a mode also known 
in the East Greenland poetry. 
The child in the hood on his mother’s back is compared to a caplin 
(ammassak) to be boiled in the pot over the lamp, cf. the epithet about a 
baby (p. 187, no. 4, 1. 6), “a strongly heating child.” But the latter part of the 
poem (1. 8—14) is a pure drum-fight song. — My informant had learned the 
song from her mother at Umiartorfik where she was born. 
Refrain: aja Ja ja Je’ ja 
amartunuag aja‘ja 
mdsanudrpa;tog aja:ja 
A little one carried in (my) amaut 
Used to being lulled to sleep — 
№ = 
isersuak 3 His two great (wondering) eyes 
sanimut isinisorsudta'k 4 Staring wide-open to one side both. 
o‘ma sane‘liara‘n:a 5 He there shall lie by the side of me, 
qa’ne sane liara'n:a 6 He there on top of me shall lie by my side, 
anväs äquaq quli”siusäsa 7 A dear little caplin to be cooked in the pot. 
awon'a a°yjaya 8 There to the north — 
ilomut qajartonama 9 At that time, certainly, I paddled my 
kaiak. 
mak" a'—Jje'ja' 10 These — 
upinilana 11 I never complained (?| 
isorLersudrorun a 12 (Though) he was said to be far the fore- 
most. 
gajarlorosäL’aran'ama 13 Because at that time I paddled my kaiak 
so badly — 
gayamaq ke: ke: 14 It is long ago, they say 
konuaja—je:ja' 15 [?] 
NOTES. — 3. isersue (Var.) ‘his great eyes. — 10. < mak'o ‘these’ meaning 
possibly “these arms of mine”, + aja (refrain). 
No. 276. Nursery rhyme to a boy. 
(Oommannätsiaq 1901.) 
ino-suluue arnerituwar‘artut 1 The wee young fellows, much too 
interested in women they are. 
piniarpar‘arLutik па`тазеда`@ 2 They run after them much too much 
— they shall get what is coming 
to them! 
NOTE. — 2. na‘maseqa'it ‘they shall get more than enough’, i. e. nemesis 
will overtake them. 
