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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—

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    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