Sources Of Legends
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"Eskimo Folk-Tales", by Knud Rasmussen, [1921],
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
Ptussorssuaq, 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
Kgssagssuk, the homeless boy who became a strong man
117
South-east Greenland--
Nuknguasik, who escaped from the Tupilak
18
Imarasugssuaq, who ate his wives
44
Qalagnguas, who passed to the land of the Ghosts
46
Isigligrssik
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--
Makte
68
Asalq
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--
Qujvrssuk
20
Knigseq
38
ngngjuk
139
Atrssuaq
142
Puagssuaq
148
Tungujuluk and Saunikoq
148
Anarteq
150
The Guillemot that could talk
152
Knagssuaq
154
South Greenland--
kardltuarssuk
75
Upernivik, North Greenland--
The Raven who wanted a wife
77
"Eskimo Folk-Tales", by Knud Rasmussen, [1921],
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
Ptussorssuaq, 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
Kgssagssuk, the homeless boy who became a strong man
117
South-east Greenland--
Nuknguasik, who escaped from the Tupilak
18
Imarasugssuaq, who ate his wives
44
Qalagnguas, who passed to the land of the Ghosts
46
Isigligrssik
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--
Makte
68
Asalq
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--
Qujvrssuk
20
Knigseq
38
ngngjuk
139
Atrssuaq
142
Puagssuaq
148
Tungujuluk and Saunikoq
148
Anarteq
150
The Guillemot that could talk
152
Knagssuaq
154
South Greenland--
kardltuarssuk
75
Upernivik, North Greenland--
The Raven who wanted a wife
77
