Note.—The particular sources of the various legends are as follows:

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

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