Eskimo Folk-Tales

About this eBook

Editor

Rasmussen, Knud, 1879-1933

Credits

Produced by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Folklore -- Greenland

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28932

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28932

Release Date

May 23, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Eskimo Folk-Tales
2. 2.Gyldendal 11 Burleigh St., Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2 Copenhagen Christiania 1921
3. 3.Introduction
4. 4.Contents
5. 5.Illustrations
6. 6.The Two Friends Who Set Off to Travel Round the World
7. 7.The Coming of Men, A Long, Long While Ago
8. 8.Nukúnguasik, Who Escaped from the Tupilak 1
9. 9.Qujâvârssuk
10. 10.Kúnigseq
11. 11.The Woman Who Had a Bear As a Foster-Son
12. 12.Ímarasugssuaq, Who Ate His Wives
13. 13.Qalagánguasê, Who Passed to the Land of Ghosts
14. 14.Isigâligârssik
15. 15.The Insects that Wooed a Wifeless Man
16. 16.The Very Obstinate Man
17. 17.The Dwarfs
18. 18.The Boy from the Bottom of the Sea, Who Frightened the People of the House to Death
19. 19.The Raven and the Goose
20. 20.When the Ravens Could Speak
21. 21.Makíte
22. 22.Asalôq
23. 23.Ukaleq
24. 24.Íkardlítuarssuk
25. 25.The Raven Who Wanted a Wife
26. 26.The Man Who Took a Vixen to Wife
27. 27.The Great Bear
28. 28.The Man Who Became a Star
29. 29.The Woman with the Iron Tail
30. 30.How the Fog Came
31. 31.The Man Who Avenged the Widows
32. 32.The Man Who Went Out to Search for His Son
33. 33.Atungait, Who Went A-Wandering
34. 34.Kumagdlak and the Living Arrows
35. 35.The Giant Dog
36. 36.The Inland-Dwellers of Etah
37. 37.The Man Who Stabbed His Wife in the Leg
38. 38.The Soul that Lived in the Bodies of All Beasts
39. 39.Papik, Who Killed His Wife’s Brother
40. 40.Pâtussorssuaq, Who Killed His Uncle
41. 41.The Men Who Changed Wives
42. 42.Artuk, Who Did All Forbidden Things
43. 43.The Thunder Spirits
44. 44.Nerrivik
45. 45.The Wife Who Lied
46. 46.Kâgssagssuk, The Homeless Boy Who Became a Strong Man
47. 47.Qasiagssaq, The Great Liar
48. 48.The Eagle and the Whale
49. 49.The Two Little Outcasts
50. 50.Atdlarneq, The Great Glutton
51. 51.Ángángŭjuk
52. 52.Âtârssuaq
53. 53.Puagssuaq
54. 54.Tungujuluk and Saunikoq
55. 55.Anarteq
56. 56.The Guillemot that Could Talk
57. 57.Kánagssuaq
58. 58.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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