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Updated: July 25, 2025
A man from the south heard one day of a guillemot that could talk. It was said that this bird was to be found somewhere in the north, and therefore he set off to the northward. And toiled along north and north in an umiak. He came to a village, and said to the people there: "I am looking for a guillemot that can talk." "Three days' journey away you will find it."
But the girl here likewise began to feel homesick, and she also began plaiting a line of sinew threads, and her brothers, who were likewise beginning to long for their sister, set about making a swift-sailing umiak. And when they had finished it, and got it into the water, they said: "Now let us see how fast it can go."
And told the others of his place that he had covered him there below the guillemot's nest because he was dead. And the umiak and its crew of women stayed there, and wintered in that place. Next summer, when they were making ready to go southward again, they had no man to go with them.
And then next morning very early, he set out and rowed northward in his umiak. And since then he has not been seen. So great a shame did he feel. There was once an old man, and he had only one son, and that son was called Anarteq. But he had many daughters. They were very fond of going out reindeer hunting to the eastward of their own place, in a fjord.
And then she threw out the inner lining of one of her mittens, and then her outer frock and then her inner coat, and now they were close to land, but the whale was almost upon them. Then the brothers cried: "Throw out your breeches!" And at the same moment the sea was lashed into foam, but the umiak had reached the land.
Afterwards she was well fed by the other villagers there, and next morning when she was setting out to go home, they all gave her meat to take with her; all save Qasiagssaq, who gave her nothing. And time went on, and once he was out as usual in his kayak, and when he came home in the evening, he said: "I have found a dead whale; to-morrow we must all go out in the umiak and cut it up."
But when he came back to his own place, his fellow-villagers asked: "Wherever did you get all this?" "An umiak started out on a journey, and the people in it were hurried and forgetful. Here are some things which they left behind them." Towards evening a number of kayaks came in sight; it was people coming on a visit, and they had all brought meat with them.
And when they came right into the base of the fjord, Anarteq would let his sisters go up the hillside to drive the reindeer, and when they drove them so, those beasts came out into a big lake, where Anarteq could row out in his kayak and kill them all. Thus in a few days they had their umiak filled with meat, and could go home again.
But his father, greatly wishing to go once more to their old hunting grounds, went there again as chief of a party, after many years had passed. His daughters rowed for him. And when they came in near to the base of the fjord, he thought of his son, and began to weep. But his son, coming up from the sea with the other salmon, saw the umiak, and his father in it, weeping.
That umiak has been hauled out of the ice!" "Hau! There must be a strong man among us!" "Who can it be that is so strong?" "Here is the mighty one, without a doubt," said Umerdlugtoq, pointing to little Kâgssagssuk. But this he said only in mockery. And a little time after this, the people about the village began to call out that three bears were in sight exactly as the giant had said.
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