Introduction-E

makpiqsimallunigit. sunauvvaukua aningagiik kukilingiattianut
her parka-tails up. It turned out that they had arrived among the kukilingiattiat.
tukittuuk. tunua saqqituarmat kukiliangiattiaruluit
As soon as her back appeared, the kukilingiattiat started to scratch her with
tunuanik qittukaalauq&utik pataquksimaliqtut kukingmingnik
their nails, and then they would lick her blood and flesh
taimanna nirivangniramik. kukingit sanngininginnut
because this was their way of eating. The strength of their nails was such,
pilakkutiqariaqanngittulluunniit. tunuanik qittukaarlutik
they did not require any cutting instrument. Since they really
nirijumanikumut kinguppiaqturluni isiqujijut.
wanted to eat her by scratching at her back, they had asked her to enter backwards.
najanganga iranakpalattilirmat aninganga igluligaluarami
When his sister started screaming, her brother rushed in with the knife he had been
using to build an iglu.
suuqaimma savilijaq&uni isiqsaaqpuq. najanganganik
When he found them scratching his sister,
qittukaaqtuqsiarigamigit qarmangatta qanaruluanik tigusigami
he took the support beam of their qarmaq and
kapuuraliqpait. ilangattauruna itturuluk ippaktullaalungnik
started to jab at them. One of them, an old man who was smacking away at
kukiliruluk kukingminik pataquksinnaq&uni uqaujakallak&uni,
his very dirty nails, stated,
“asuguuq namnamnam uqautiqqaugaluaqpassi namnamnam
“Again I state namnamnamnam. I did tell you namnamnamnam.
iniqtiqqaugaluaqpassi namnamnanamnamnamnam ”.
I did forbid you namnamnamnam.”
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