Contents

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  2. [Introduction] 5
  3. [The two Friends who set off to travel round the world] 15
  4. [The coming of Men, a long, long while ago] 16
  5. [Nukúnguasik, who escaped from the Tupilak] 18
  6. [Qujâvârssuk] 20
  7. [Kúnigseq] 38
  8. [The woman who had a bear as a foster-son] 40
  9. [Ímarasugssuaq, who ate his wives] 44
  10. [Qalagánguasê, who passed to the land of Ghosts] 46
  11. [Isigâligârssik] 49
  12. [The Insects that wooed a wifeless man] 52
  13. [The very obstinate man] 56
  14. [The Dwarfs] 60
  15. [The Boy from the Bottom of the Sea, who frightened the people of the house to death] 64
  16. [The Raven and the Goose] 66
  17. [When the Ravens could speak] 67
  18. [Makíte] 68
  19. [Asalôq] 71
  20. [Ukaleq] 73
  21. [Íkardlítuarssuk] 75
  22. [The Raven who wanted a wife] 77
  23. [The man who took a Vixen to wife] 79
  24. [The great bear] 81
  25. [The man who became a star] 82
  26. [The woman with the iron tail] 83
  27. [How the fog came] 84
  28. [The man who avenged the widows] 86
  29. [The man who went out to search for his son] 88
  30. [Atungait, who went a-wandering] 90
  31. [Kumagdlak and the living arrows] 93
  32. [The Giant Dog] 95
  33. [The Inland-dwellers of Etah] 97
  34. [The man who stabbed his wife in the leg] 98
  35. [The soul that lived in the bodies of all beasts] 100
  36. [Papik, who killed his wife’s brother] 104
  37. [Pâtussorssuaq, who killed his uncle] 107
  38. [The men who changed wives] 109
  39. [Artuk, who did all forbidden things] 110
  40. [The thunder spirits] 111
  41. [Nerrivik] 113
  42. [The wife who lied] 115
  43. [Kâgssagssuk, the homeless boy who became a strong man] 117
  44. [Qasiagssaq, the great liar] 123
  45. [The Eagle and the Whale] 130
  46. [The two little Outcasts] 133
  47. [Atdlarneq, the great glutton] 136
  48. [Ángángŭjuk] 139
  49. [Âtârssuaq] 142
  50. [Puagssuaq] 146
  51. [Tungujuluk and Saunikoq] 148
  52. [Anarteq] 150
  53. [The Guillemot that could talk] 152
  54. [Kánagssuaq] 154
  55. [The sources of the various legends] 157