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creature Kiliffaq ‘Big Tooth’ perhaps = mammoth) with its six legs, and the 
Inorutsit. They crossed the ice of the Ikerasarsuag ‘Big Sound’ and sought 
refuge during the winter in caves in the ground. Near Noossaq dwelt human 
beings. Their angakok greatly desired to obtain possession of a mountain- 
troll child, because his own wife was childless. So the angakok went to the 
mountain-troll, Malerge, who lived with his sons on the mainland behind 
Noossag; and for three large whale-knives, а bearskin and a fishing-line of 
whalebone, he purchased a child. Malerge sold, indeed, his youngest son, 
called Sersoq. The angakok took him home with him, placed him behind 
his house, well-hidden. During the night the child entered the wife of the 
angakok and she became the child’s new mother. 
Malerge is an unusual name. In Rink’s other story of the mountain- 
troll! there is a passage, — the outburst of the mad sister, — of which 1.3 
possibly contains a reminiscence of this song. The passage is as follows: 
“You, (you mountain-trolls) have no sister-in-law like mine. 
I have got a new sister in law, 
One with a necklace, with pearls, a beautiful woman, a dweller of 
the coast!” 
ашапи)`2`4 1 Up there towards the north it is told, 
qilan’a'q kiL'iyanip'2 q 2 On the boundary of heaven, they say. 
arne'lesinuag 3 (Dwells) the little Arneeleesik 
qutausa, tarqäm'iutausa 4 “The Supply”, “the Object stuck under 
the cross-straps of the kaiak’”. 
kia puja‘, o'ma puja: 5 Who owns her? — He owns her, that 
one there. 
samiutagarma 6 Because he wore an amulet on his 
breast, 
talergis’egarma 7 Because he wore a forepaw on his body, 
ataliuta' 8 (An amulet) made of the Greenland seal |?| 
tixaP ar'ato'p paniata 9 The young daughter of a stinking male 
seal [has him?) 
naukiäp раша malerqäp 10 Naawkiak’s daughter, Malerge’s wife, 
nulia 
awin-eruluk 11 A pitiable, divorced (torn away) woman. 
Notes.— 4. Possibly epithets or pet names of the woman. — 8. The word 
has hardly any connection (though I believed earlier that it had) with the 
interjection ata ‘listen! or ‘look there!’ but rather with a'ta:q ‘a Greenland 
seal”-+ Пир`а` ‘makes a— of it, makes it a—’. An explanation of the expres- 
sion is lacking. The tale gives us no hint on the subject and the close of the 
poem is anything but clear. — 9. paniata ‘his daughter’s (relative mode), or 
perhaps the subject of a transitive verb, implied but not expressed. — 10. 
< na‘®kiag ‘one casting a harpoon after a seal’, (seems here to be used as а 
name). — 11. This seems to imply the fact that Malerqe’s wife was torn from 
her former husband (a sea animal ?). 
1 Rink (1866) I, no. 43. 
