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532. МУ. THALBITZER. 
troll is small the skin of a bird seems as large to him as that of a seal to 
a human being (no. 19, p. 216). Moreover they are said to have five or six 
ages. When old they are able to renew their youth by pitching down a steep 
slope: “Five times the mountain-troll would do this, five times they renewed 
their youth, but when they fell down the sixth time, youth was no longer 
attainable. They do not die young, but only after reaching the fifth old age. 
However they do die young if an avalanche overtakes them.” This pitching 
down a mountain-side and consequent rejuvenation is called inufsannarneq 
(Rink). 
In the following song a mountain-troll is apparently in the process of 
rejuvenation by pitching down the mountain-side. 
ala pawan'a 1 Listen! hear him way off there, inland 
konkorbrpalut-rsuaq 2 One crying aloud: kong-kong! 
un'ua'nersuarme ergera- 3 In the great darkness when I suddenly 
ra‘nama waken, 
apus'uak'uL'o siso‘rutit:ar- 4 At great speed sliding through the deep 
asualonalo snow, as it were | 
kala'L'iL'arasuälonalo 5 And at great speed (or with great 
force) .....(€), as it were 
kun kun kuyo:: 6 Kong, kong, kong, ooh! 
NOTES. — 2. In the tale in Rink (1. c. no. 43) we read: “When the house 
of his relative was discernible from a height he shouted: kung, kung, kung- 
kujo! The children playing near the house heard it and repeated: “There is 
someone calling kung, kung.” And they saw the children’s mother come out 
and repeat the shout.” 
3. In this and the following lines the mountain-troll seems to be speaking. 
4. Perhaps here the meaning is that he is carried away by a lavine. 
< siso'rup'a‘ ‘(the snow) slides down in masses and covers him with it. 
5. kala’Li- a verbal stem of unknown meaning, but it reminds one of 
kaler-ag ‘the sound of something scraping, f. 1. ‘а sled scraping over ice’, and | 
käL'eq ‘thunder’; perhaps ‘it sounds beneath him’ as he falls headlong. 
No. 283. The Seal’s Daughter. 
Martin Môrch (Umanak). 
Phon. Study, p. 289, no. 2. 
I have already quoted this song under my commentary to no.22 con- 
taining some greatly distorted variants from East Greenland. 
Since making my first records of it, I have come across the name, 
Malerge in Rink’s tale no. 116 (of the mountain-troll) to which reference has 
just been made; it was the name of a mountain-troll in the stretch of country 
inland behind Nousak (i. e. Noossaq).! In this tale we read that in ancient 
days strife arose between the mountain-trolls and human beings, Inuit (= the 
Eskimo) in the most remote corner of the earth. This was before the time 
of the inland ice. The mountain-trolls were forced to migrate and went forth 
to new districts; on the way they passed the Erqeliks and the mythical 
7 Rink I, no. 116, р. 314. There is presumably only one place in North Greenland 
called Noossaq, an extinct hamlet in Ritenbenk’s district. 
