Once someone met a giant who was jigging for fish beside two steep ridges that we call Kitingujaajuak and Kitingujaanaq. He had an adopted son. The giant told his son, “When I go to sleep, it will be for a very long time and I won’t be easy to wake up. So when you do try to wake me, place a slab of stone on my forehead and pound me with it.” The giant also told his son that one day a huge polar bear would appear. This polar bear would be so huge that it would block the view between the two ridges, which were quite far apart.
As soon as the huge polar bear appeared, the adopted son started pounding the giant’s forehead with the slab of stone. But the giant kept right on sleeping. The son kept trying desperately to wake the giant for the polar bear was approaching fast. The giant finally woke up, grabbed his bow and arrows, placed the son in his big pouch, and started running after the bear. The giant eventually caught and killed the bear.
A few days later the same giant (or maybe another one) met a very small man jigging for fish. Beside him was a huge white whale and its baby. The giant asked the little man for a small piece of meat from the whale. Being a very stingy little man, he said, “No, that’s for my wife.” The giant and the little man began to argue and eventually started fighting. The little man, who was no match for the giant, was soon knocked down and began shouting for help.
As soon as the little man’s wife heard him calling, she started running to help him. She was a huge woman and was breastfeeding her baby when she heard the call. Her breasts were hanging out as she started to run and she ended up dropping the baby in the snow. Because the woman with her breasts hanging out was so hard for the giant to hold on to, she almost overpowered the giant and his adopted son. The giant told his son to cut off the woman’s breasts. They had a hard time killing the woman because she was so huge. After they had managed to kill her, they went looking for the baby she had been feeding.
The giant and his son found the iglu that the little man and his huge wife had been living in. Their children, who were in the iglu, became afraid when they saw the giant. Some of them tried to get away by climbing the rope that their father used to exercise on. The others scrambled everywhere, trying to hide on the bed. I don’t think the children were killed because they were just too young. The giant and the son noticed that there was a lot of food stacked up against the wall of the igloo, which left them wondering why the little man was so stingy.