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having fattened them, but was stabbed with a lance by the last of
them (3).
Sometimes the hest friends on apparently trifling occasions
grow enemies (6, 59).
Two cousins were very fond of one another, they assisted
each other early and late and amused themselves in exercising and
exhibiting their mutual strength (4).
Two friends loved each other very dearly. One of them used
to say: „When I have not seen my friend for a whole day, I am
ready to die with longing (6).
A famous angakok married a girl who had a number of
brothers; after this he grew neglectful, living on what they captured
. . . but in the midst of winter, when the provisions were brought
to an end, the brothers in law had given up hunting and all were
on the point of starvation, then at length he went hunting seals,
saved the lives of all the inmates of the house, and was now highly
thought of by them (16).
Of the two friends who loved each other so dearly the one
occasionally did not visit the other at the usual time, for which
reason the other made him go mad by aid of witchcraft (6).
A woman making people enemies by calumniating them to
each other (18).
The women had only put by a piece of the back (meat)
instead of briskets for his mothers brother . . . offended by this want
of consideration he resolved . . . (13).
As his fosterfather continually had excited him on account of
his parents having been killed by their enemies . . . he put big
stones in his sling and destroyed three boat’s crews and all (25).
Having killed the murderers of his son, they retired to their
hiding place under their boat which they had covered with grass
and shrubs (34).
All of a sudden he saw his companion whom he believed his
dearest friend, with raised arm aiming his harpoon at him (59).
The sons took vengeance on the disturbers of their mother’s
grave (61).
As he had a quarrel with his wife, her brothers all went up
and seized him, and at last struck him with a knife (85).
He sheltered himself behind his protector, the arrows flying
about him right and left (4, 14).
The visitors had to try wrestling with the giant, who killed
the first of them and called out for a rope to hoist the dead man
up to the roof of the house . . . a sound of knives was then heard
(cannibals?) (16).
A strong man used to invite strangers to a wrestling and
fighting match on a plain above the houses covered with many
projecting stones, which he had chosen on purpose, in order to
finish off his adversaries by dashing them against the stones (10, 26).
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