Inupassaqdjung

In Saumia lived a female monster, Inupassaqdjung, as tall as the island Kikertaqdjuaq. She used to straddle one of the fiords to look for catfish as she said but she really meant to catch whales. Whenever she saw one she lifted it up in the hollow of her hand and conveyed it to her mouth. One day some Eskimo had caught a whale and while they were trying to kill it the giantess came along and lifted them all up boats whale and people. The whale was striking about with its tail which amused her and she cried, "Lil, lil, lil!" When it was dead she landed whale boat and men on the shore In the winter she asked a man to become her husband. She said to him, "Place a stone beside me and if you see a bear take the stone in your hands and strike my head with it until I wake up." After she had been asleep a short time the man saw a bear coming. He took a stone struck her head with it until she awoke and showed her the bear that was approaching on the ice. She cried, "That is not a bear it is a little fox." When it came nearer she took it up It was a bear although she called it a fox. She said to her husband, "Do you see those bunches of seaweed. When you see the spaces between them filled that you may call a bear. What she called seaweed were two islands with an enormous space between them. She went to sleep again. After a while he saw something coming which filled the space between the islands. He took a stone and struck the head of the giantess until she awoke. He shouted, "There is a large bear yonder." She jumped up saw the bear and said, "Indeed this is a bear." Before she went in pursuit however she put her husband inside the loop at the side of her boot which is used for tightening the shoestrings. She took a stone and killed the enormous bear with it. Then she took it ashore, flensed it, and put the meat away. They had no house but they lived on the land the sky being their roof.