| Original Title | Dialect | Informant | Genre Form | Genre Content | ID | glossed | Audio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nʲələ kom joxtaːt, kʷælnə juwtuːt | eastern mansi (EM) | Semeon Alagulov (15.12.1904) Andrei Istanovitš Jutkin (27.12.1904) | prose (pro) | Bear Songs (bes) | 1549 | by Schigutt, Hannah | – |
| Text Source | Editor | Collector |
|---|---|---|
| Kannisto, Artturi - Liimola, Matti, Wogulische Volksdichtung V. MSFOu, volume 116, p. 122-126 | Kannisto & Liimola (KL) |
| English Translation | German Translation | Russian Translation | Hungarian Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| "The man from the upper course of the squirrel river, the sable river and the three sons of the old man Kērs" | – | – | – |
| by Schigutt, Hannah - Riese, Timothy |
| Citation |
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| Kannisto & Liimola: OUDB Eastern Mansi Corpus. Text ID 1549. Ed. by Janda, Gwen Eva. http://www.oudb.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?cit=1549 (Accessed on 2024-05-05) |
| The man from the upper course of the squirrel river, the sable river and the three sons of the old man Kērs |
| Four men come, they enter the hut. They ask: "What kind of loud hut do you have?" "We have a bear hut." "Where is that (animal)?" "Here it sits." "Come on, (it) has to be looked at." Oh, this is a pile of moldy grass that has been lifted from between two lakes! What are you drinking and eating?" "We're drinking ale and small beer, a bear feast." "We'll lie down and get ready to rest here." The three sons of the old man Kērs get ready to lie down together. The man from the upper course of the squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the sable river lies down to the side. The three Kērs sons deliberate: "We'll prepare some food." They got ready to prepare food. One took his mitten, stuck it between his legs and says: "piss, piss piss, piss piss!" He peed, there is no water. He then puts pearl barley into it, started to stir, stirs, says: "slop, slop, slop, slop!" He gives the other one to eat: "Eat!" That one tastes it, eats. He asks again: "Is it sweet?" That one says: "Ew, it smells like urine!" "Don't eat anymore, I am not giving you anymore to eat." He gives the second man to eat, asks again: "What does it taste like? Is it sweet?" The other man says:"It's sweet, sweet, sweet!" They lay down, fell asleep. The man from the upper course of the squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the sable river builds a fishing weir. "I have built a fishing weir at my old father's river that stayed behind, at my old grandfather's rippling and mumbling river that stayed behind, it's done, I am going home." The three sons of Kērs got up. "Let's go to the fishing weir of the man from the upper course of the lonely squirrel river, let's go to the fishing weir of the man from the upper course of the lonely sable river!" They went. They sing: "We are the three sons of old man Kērs, of old man Kērs. We're going to look after the fishing weir of the man from the lonely squirrel river, from the lonely sable river." They arrived (there). They examined the fishing weir. Then they took the fish out and smashed the fishing weir into pieces: The man from the upper course of the lonely squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the lonely sable river let him go hungry!" They went away. The man from the upper course of the lonely squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the lonely sable river goes to his fishing weir. He arrived there. He looks: "What smashed the fishing weir into pieces?" These three sons of old man Kērs smashed the fishing weir into pieces. I've got a big nose, a big nose. The three sons of old man Kērs on which watery land or on which dry land shall I restrain them?" He built his fishing weir anew and went home. The three sons of old man Kērs go to examine the fishing weir. They examined the fishing weir, looted it and took away their looted fish. The three sons of old man Kērs say: "Let's wait here for the man from the upper course of the lonely squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the lonely sable river!" The man from the upper course of the lonely squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the lonely sable went to his small rippling and mumbling river. He arrived there. The three sons of old man Kērs (are) there. When he comes to his fishing weir it has been smashed into pieces. The man from the upper course of the lonely squirrel river, the man from the upper course of the lonely sable river stands and says: "You want to take from the watery land, you want to take from the dry land, (take) your father's penis, (you) three sons of old man Kērs!" They start to brawl. They went at each other to brawl with wooden spears and wooden axes, they fall over each other, they climb over each other. They get dowsed with water. The people sitting in the house yell: They stopped their brawling, stood up, went outside. |