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Sources of Legends


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

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