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I. Cradle Songs. 64

64.

GadA'ldia, gadA'ldia (many times),

How great you are, how great you are!

S'digwa g'dadia, g'dadian (last word repeated several times)

They said belonging to a high family, belonging to a high family

A da'la siq!a'odaga ag'g at t!'gwus k!'tay'-gadas

You gambling-stick bag into with copper throw a great one (in exchange for services)

wa'at sgun gd'dia sd'gwa. 1

with it only belong to a high family, they say.

How great you are, how great you are! etc.,

They say belonging to a high family, belonging to a high family, etc.

In exchange you throw a great copper into the gambling stick bag. 1 They say those with this are the only ones who belong to a high family.

Footnotes

43:1
This is difficult to translate. Reference is made to a chief of this family who always staked a copper when he gambled, and invariably won.
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