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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/55131

An Uilta Folktale Text by B. Pilsudski : "A Rat Mother and a Frog Mother" with Grammatical Analysis and Japanese Translation

日本語

2014

Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University

Northern Language Studies

4

213-231

Bronislaw Pilsudski (1866-1918), a Polish ethnologist, collected Tungusic materials in Sakhalin and Amur region in early 20th century. In his collection, there is an Uilta folktale text, which has not been fully analysed. The present work is an attempt to reconstruct the text in phonological transcription with grammatical analysis and Japanese translation. The story of the folktale is summarized as follows: A rat mother and a frog mother went up the river by boat to gather berries. The frog mother could not climb the tree and got no berries. The rat mother got many, but gave none of them to the frog mother. When they came back home, the children of the rat were happy, while the children of the frog were sad. The frog mother killed an elk and got much meat. The rat mother attempted to steal the meat, but was hit bitterly by the frog mother. To heal her wound, a crow shaman, a raven shaman and a bird shaman were called one by one. The bird shaman told the truth and was sent away by the rat mother.

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2185-7121

AA12516968