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As he was obliged to follow in a boat the pursuers of his
brother who fled in kayak, he feigned to be pulling exceedingly
hard, and in so doing, purposely broke every oar he got in hand,
in order to delay the pursuit (48).
The hospitable man at whose house the two travellers had
put up, said to them, that if they wanted to have wives, they might
take his daughters; in this way they got married the same day
(10, 67).
A man stayed out on a journey so long a time, that his own
people had given him up, when he returned; meanwhile an old
bachelor had undertaken to provide for his family, he now feared
that the man should feel jealous, but on the contrary he earned
thanks as well as a reward for this service (71).
The father gave his son several instructions as a new
beginning hunter, admonishing him not to go to the north, because of
a monstrous reptile. But nevertheless he went to meet with it,
vanquished and killed it (5).
The brothers started on an expedition to find and visit their
sister who lived among cannibals . . . in proceeding along the coast
in search of an inhabited place they kept a look out for ravens,
where they mighL be seen soaring . . . in this way they discovered
a number of houses . . . after having secured their sledges and
waited the fall of night, they went cautiously up to one large house,
mounted the roof and looked down the venthole . . . recognised
their sister as being quite white on one side of the head . . . they
made a sign by spitting down . . . their brother in law then
instantly emerged from the entrance, carrying his bow ready beat in
his hand . . . as they had told him about their relation to his wife,
he instantly invited them to go in, and ordered a meal to be
prepared for them . . . they learned that all the people of the place
were cannibals and had made a cannibal out of their sister too
. . . however their brother in law was very careful for them, and
in order to save them from being pursued when leaving his house
the next morning, he cut asunder the lashings of all the sledges
belonging to his neighbours (9).
Two brothers in roaming about came to people who suffered
under the sway of a „strong man”. They vanquished and killed
him, whereupon his inferiors greatly rejoiced and would make the
strangers henceforth their masters . . . They also defied and killed
a giant in another place, who used to stab any stranger, that came
to him, in fighting matches with lances (10).
When strangers enter into a house it is customary, in the first
place to offer them a meal, and secondly invite them to a
wrestling match (23, 25, 26, 36).
Several men lived together at the mouth of a fjord. All those
who went kayaking up the fjord disappeared one after another (48).
A boy fled to the inland and grew „kivigtok”, because he
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