From: Kamikinnaq and
the Giants
As time went by,
Kamikinnaq realised that he had started to grow. He grew and he grew, and he
was soon as big as his foster father.
One day his foster
father asked him whether he had family elsewhere.
Then Kamikinnaq told
him that his parents lived at Noorsiit.
“Don’t you want to
visit them?” his foster father asked him.
Kamikinnaq realised
that his anger towards his parents had disappeared because he had grown and
found a new place to live, so he decided to visit them again.
He got into the big
kayak he now had and paddled and paddled. When he reached his old settlement,
he was so big that he could effortlessly put his hand on top of the big
headland.
The people got very
scared when they saw the giant in the big kayak. They didn’t recognise
Kamikinnaq and asked who he was.
“I’m Kamikinnaq, the
boy you used to call a little wimp.”
Then he went ashore
and up to his parents’ tent. He had grown so tall that he didn’t fit inside the
tent, and in order to talk to his parents, he had to scoop them up in the palm
of his hand.
Afterwards, he went
hunting to get plenty of food for his parents, who had grown very old while he
had been away.
He paddled far out
into the open sea and caught a lot of harp seals, which he put in his kayak. If
they wiggled too much, he would grab them by the back flippers and bash their
heads against each other, killing them.
It wasn’t until he
had caught enough seals so that his parents would have food for many, many
years that he got ready to travel back to Akilineq.