Eskimo Folk-Tales, by Knud Rasmussen, [1921], at sacred-texts.com
Note.The particular sources of the various legends are as follows:
POLAR ESKIMO, SMITH SOUND |
page |
The two Friends who set off to travel round the world |
15 |
The coming of Men, a long, long while ago |
16 |
The woman who had a bear as a foster-son |
40 |
The great bear |
81 |
The man who became a star |
82 |
The woman with the iron tail |
83 |
How the fog came |
84 |
The man who avenged the widows |
86 |
The man who went out to search for his son |
88 |
Atungait, who went a-wandering |
90 |
Kumagdlak and the living arrows |
93 |
The giant dog |
95 |
The Inland-dwellers of Etah |
97 |
The man who stabbed his wife in the leg |
98 |
The soul that lived in the bodies of all beasts |
100 |
Papik, who killed his wife's brother |
104 |
Pâtussorssuaq, who killed his uncle |
107 |
The men who changed wives |
109 |
Artuk, who did all things forbidden |
110 |
The thunder spirits |
111 |
Nerrivik |
113 |
The wife who lied |
115 |
Kâgssagssuk, the homeless boy who became a strong man |
117 |
SOUTH-EAST GREENLAND |
|
Nukúnguasik, who escaped from the Tupilak |
18 |
Imarasugssuaq, who ate his wives |
44 |
Qalagánguasê, who passed to the land of the Ghosts |
46 |
Isigâligârssik |
49 |
The Insects that wooed a wifeless man |
52 |
The very obstinate man |
56 |
The Dwarfs |
60 |
The Boy from the Bottom of the Sea, who frightened the people of the house to death |
64 |
The Raven and the Goose |
66 |
When the Ravens could speak |
67 |
WEST GREENLAND |
|
Makíte |
68 |
Asalôq |
71 |
Ukaleq |
73 |
The man who took a Vixen to wife |
79 |
Qasiagssaq, the great liar |
123 |
The Eagle and the Whale |
130 |
The two little Outcasts |
133 |
Atdlarneq, the great glutton |
136 |
GODTHAAB, WEST GREENLAND |
|
Qujâvârssuk |
20 |
Kúnigseq |
38 |
Ángángŭjuk |
139 |
Atârssuaq |
142 |
Puagssuaq |
148 |
Tungujuluk and Saunikoq |
148 |
Anarteq |
150 |
The Guillemot that could talk |
152 |
Kánagssuaq |
154 |
SOUTH GREENLAND |
|
Íkardlítuarssuk |
75 |
UPERNIVIK, NORTH GREENLAND |
|
The Raven who wanted a wife |
77 |