Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo

A woman named Arnasugaussak, on being scolded by her parents for having broken her mother's precious needle, fled with her daughter to the inland, where they lived with people, who after a while were transformed into partridges, and afterwards with others who changed into reindeers. Finally, they returned to the sea-coast, and saw some men flensing a whale. While standing calling out to them they were converted into stones.

Of this tale only the principal parts have been selected, and are given here in a very fragmentary form.