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Eskimo Folk-Tales: Sources of Legends

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 | | 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 |