f99Ogoelong

(It) shouldn't be an arrow, (it) shouldn't be a spear.

Man a b'au ba / man a kwap ba.

(It) took (it and) returned home (and) caught God, take my hand (and I will tell you the tale).

Mang wa ya a Naan / lap s'a noe.

In the past, God was (there) (in) his own way.

Naan dok d'e bi ji.

God married his wives, (he) married (and) stopped, (he) married Ngan (and) put (her) among (the other wives).

Naan lap sharap ji / lap lat / lap Ngan loe nd'ûûn.

This Ngan, (it was ) her (who) was the senior wife.

Ngan nnoehoe / ni toe / mat goemisk'oom yi.

Okay, this senior wife, (in) the old days, only the thing (happened) that when she spoke (it) (i.e., whatever she said happened).

To / mat goemisk'oom nnoehoe / dok poeb'it / sai bi goefe ni la kut.

So, the door of their hut, (it) faced (towards and) was one with God ('s door).

So / pûepin mûep / yir d'e bi goe goeme / ndoe Naan.

Her co-wives, they gave birth to their children.

Moejir muk / mûep b'ak jap dwen.

Okay, when the sun would go down (i.e., at the end of the day), the Ngan gave birth to just her one child, (she) called his name Goelong (i.e., "useless").

To / p'ûûs la t'ong sûûn / Ngan nnoe la la doe goeme kûût / yong s'em muk a Goelong.

This Goelong was there.

Goelong nnoe d'e d'i.

When the sun would go down, when they would hang their pot of soup, Goelong (would) return home (and) arrive.

P'ûûs la t'ong sûûn / mûep la t'ong lang wang tok mûep / Goelong wa wul.

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When Goelong took this his whip, Goenong, Goelong would break the soup pots of these his fathers wives, all (of them).

Goelong la mang nuk ji nnoe / Goenong / Goelong t'ong / p'yaram wang tok / sharap nda ji nnoe dip.

(He) broke (them and) hit his siblings.

P'yaram b'ûap moejap nûûn muk.

On every day of God, when the sun would go down, (this was) the work of Goelong.

Ko-mb'it Naan goenang / p'ûûs la t'ong sûûn a shit Goelong toe.

On every day of God, when the sun would go down, (this was) the work of Goelong.

Komb'it goenang / p'ûûs la t'ong sûûn a shit Goelong.

Then his mother called him, Ngan called him.

Sai nûûn muk yong ni / Ngan yong ni.

(She) said: "You?" (She) said: "Goelong!".

Yin: "Goe a?" Yin: "Goelong!"

Goelong answered.

Goelong lap.

(She) said: "Behold, (here) is (your) pride, this (pride) that he is showing, does he show pride (in) her, or does he show pride (in) God?"

Yin: "Sh'ai nd'e goed'e gwa t'ong sh'ai yi nnoe / gwa sh'ai sh'ai doe a / ko gwa sh'ai sh'ai Naan?"

(He) said: "How would he show pride (in) her?"

Yin: "T'ong ji sh'ai sh'ai pa fa?"

"Is she a ring on (his) finger?"

"Pa a ngoegan nsh'oon a?"

"So that he (would) show pride (in) her?"

"De ji sh'ai sh'ai pa yi a?"

"He shows pride (in) his father."

"Ji sh'ai sh'ai nda ji."

Ngan said: "(Is is) like this?" He said: "Yes."

Ngan yin: "Poenoe a?" Yin: "Mh."

Ngan did her preparations.

Ngan shin shiri doe.

Ngan prepared her possessions.

Ngan nyap le doe.

Okay, a marriage of the old times was not a marriage until death (lit., marriage of having been killed).

To / d'ik goe dok poeb'it / a d'ik goentu ba.

When you rose (i.e., left the marriage), you would just go to someone else.

Goela yo goe t'ong goe mûaan nnde kûût.

Ngan prepared her possessions (and) went out.

Ngan nyap le doe p'et.

(She) collected her belongings (and) went (for) marriage to the house of a Hausa chief.

War le doe mûaan d'ik / lu kur goebakwa.

(She) left Goelong and his father.

Nyet Goelong / ndoe nda ji.

When the sun went down this time, when Goelong showed his pride, (he) ran (and) returned (and) came to the house--, his hut--, (the hut) of his mother.

P'ûûs la sûûn d'em / Goelong la shin sh'ai ji / su ba doe nlu / mpin ji nûûn ji.

(He) didn't find his mother.

Kat nûûn ji ba.

His father saw, Ngan must have gone missing, (he) didn't hear her voice.

Nda muk na / Ngan goe wan / k'oeleng moshi muk ba.

When Goelong went out and broke their soup pots (and) showed (his pride). When he had returned (and) returned home (and) arrived, they said: "Where is God? Where is God?"

Goelong la p'et goe p'yaram wang tok mûep shin sh'ai. Goela ba muk wa wul mûep yin: "Naan d'e nnang? Naan d'e nnang?"

God pursued Goelong. (He) beat Goelong.

Naan t'an Goelong. Dal Goelong.

Goelong returned (and) lay here in the hut of his mother.

Goelong ba doe t'o mpin nûûn ji.

When the day dawned, they looked for Goelong now.

B'it la lin / mûep tang d'em Goelong.

They said: "Goelong, come and go for soup (ingredients)."

Mûep yi: "Goelong doe goe mûaan ntok."

Goelong went for firewood.

Goelong mûaan nsh'ep.

Goelong would go out (and) go to collect soup (ingredients).

Goelong t'ong p'et mûaan goe d'ip tok.

Goelong would look for firewood, (and he would) return home with it (and) give (it to) the wives of God here.

Goelong t'ong tang sh'ep / wa nni doe poe sharap Naan.

When they have made food with it, they gave (it to) their children.

Mûep la shin s'oe nni / mûep poe jap mûep.

They took a round stone (and) laid (it) down into the fire.

Mûep mang yitk'ul b'ûet nwus.

When they lay down the round stone, when (it) had become red completely, so when they removed (it), (they) lay (it) in a calabash.

Mûep la b'ûet yitk'ul / la b'ang serei serei / la de mûep p'en yi b'ûet nd'a.

So that they fetch soup (and) pour (it) on top.

De mûep nak tok yi d'ûe k'a.

So that Goelong would say: "(It) burned his hand, (it) burned his hand." When (he) went to break off porridge, the porridge refused to break.

De Goelong t'ong yi: "Nwang s'a ji nwang s'a ji." La mûaan de-goe b'as shat / shat nyang b'as.

When (it) had burned his hand, when (it was) cold, (he) took the stone (and) lay (it) down over there, (he) took the soup (and) drank (it).

La nwang s'a ji / la goezoom / mang yitk'ul b'ûet pûanang / mang tok mûak.

(He) rose and eventually lay down.

Yo goe-goe t'a t'o.

When you talk (this) of today, (it is the same thing) that (you) talk tomorrow.

La goe k'wal goeshini / a goed'a goed'aar toe.

(It) refused, his legs were numb under him.

Nyang / sh'e muk k'ut ngoede muk.

(He) entered this time (and) returned home (and) arrived under the hollow of his mother's bed and so (he) lay down (there).

Ru d'em wa ya ngoede hool gado nûûn muk goe t'a yi t'o.

God didn't ask where he was.

Naan tal goed'e muk ba.

Okay, this time, wasps hung their nests on his head.

To d'em / tangzem / leng lu nk'a muk.

Mice hung their nests on his head.

Goesem leng lu nk'a muk.

(He) lay this time to die.

T'o d'em de-goe muut.

The brother of Goelongs mother rose (and) arrived.

Yam nûûn Goelong yool / wul.

(He said), he goes (and) sees his sister's child.

Ji mûaan ji na k'en ji.

(He) rose (and) returned back (and) came there.

Yo wa doe d'i.

(He) didn't find Goelong.

Kat goe Goelong ba.

(He) entered (and) came into the hut of his mother--, his sister.

Ru doe mpin nû-- / reep nûûn muk.

(He) searched the place, (he) searched the place.

Tang pe tang pe.

(He) looked under the hollow of the bed.

Sh'ang goede hool gado.

The kind (of bed) with a hollow of the bed of old times, they built (it) with a hollow of the bed.

Nye goe hool gado goe dok poeb'it / mûep d'ik goe hool gado.

(He) looked under the hollow of the bed.

Sh'ang goede hool gado.

(He) saw--, with--, the thing that was in the hollow of the bed, who stood there, who was joined with hair.

Na-- / goe-- / bi goed'e nhool gado hok goed'yem d'i goehad'a ndoe shulk'a.

(He) looked (and) saw, (he) looked (and) saw.

B'ûen na b'ûen na.

(He) passed (and) came out.

D'alang p'et.

(He) took a road.

Ya wakaam.

(He) went out (and) went to the house of the Hausa chief, where his sister was.

P'et mûaan lu kur goebakwa / goed'e reep nûûn muk.

When he returned back (and) came, they were brewing, uh, they brew beer (for mourning, because of a death that had occurred) in the house of the Hausa chief.

Goewa muk doe / mûep d'e t'ong shak / uh / mûep shak sadaka / lu kur goebakwa.

And Ngan was a singer.

Ngan kuma a mat goemang.

Okay, (he) said: "What would he do, so that--, Ngan hears his voice?"

To yin: "T'ong ji shin nd'ang de-- / Ngan k'oeleng d'ûe ji yi?"

There was a silk-cotton tree standing there, a long one. The silk-cotton tree, he returned (and this is) how (he) climbed.

Akwai t'eng kûûr / nd'yem d'i / goesûe. T'eng kûûr ni toe ba boehaan.

(He) climbed here (and) sat in this silk-cotton tree.

Doe haan t'ong nt'eng kûûr nnoe.

There were some stubborn children there.

Akwai ndoe jap moeb'akpe d'e d'i.

They went out behind the village.

Mûep p'ûat nk'ong lu.

Behold, here they stood behind the village, behold, (here they) were behind this village under this silk-cotton (tree).

Mûep doe nd'yam nk'ong lu nd'e nk'ong lu nnoe goede kûûr nnoe.

The Goelong stood. "Okay, what would he do?"

Sai Goelong d'yem. "To / t'ong ji shin nd'ang?"

"So that his sister should hear his voice."

"De reep nûûn ji goe k'oeleng d'ûe ji yi?"

"He would try with his voice."

"T'ong ji t'yam goe d'ûe ji."

(He) started (lit., he fell on it).

T'a nni.

(He) said: "My name (is) Moek'walam (i.e., blacksmith), Moek'walam. My name (is) Moek'walam, he arrived."

Yin: "S'em noe Moek'walam Moek'walam. S'em noe Moek'walam ji wul."

(He) said: "My name (is) Moek'walam (i.e., blacksmith), Moek'walam. My name (is) Moek'walam, he arrived."

Yin: "S'em noe Moek'walam Moek'walam. S'em noe Moek'walam ji wul."

(He) said: "My name (is) Moek'alk'ong (i.e., someone with grass clinging to him), the son of Matk'wap, (so he) would select (it and tell it) to Ngan."

Yin: "S'em noe Moek'alk'ong / yam Matk'wap / t'ong shak yi poe Ngan."

He said: "Ngan saw Goelong, the son Goelong has died."

Yin: "Ngan na Goelong / la Goelong muut."

(He) said: "Ngan, if you see our house against the wall, our house misses Ngan."

Yin: "Ngan d'a yi na lu men sek katanga o lu men tyang Ngan."

(He) said: "Ngan, if you see our house against the silk-cotton tree, our house misses Ngan."

Yin: "Ngan d'a yi na lu men sek t'eng kûûr o lu men tyang Ngan."

"The flute is better than your neighbours. The smith is better than your neighbours."

"K'ark'u ma moenye yoe wo. Noek'walam ma moenye yoe."

(He) said: "Matk'wap sowed a calabash, the calabash creeped along (and) gave birth to a pumpkin."

Yin: "Matk'wap wum d'a / d'a su la byaap."

"Matk'wap ate ground beniseed being grounded to throw out (i.e., produce) a pumpkin."

"Matk'wap s'oe s'am shen s'am s'am de-goe twak byaap."

"The pumpkin boiled (and) fell into the fire."

"Byaap fyal t'a nwus."

"So earlier today Matk'wap shouted to search for the men."

"Matk'wap d'in yong woor yi de-goe tang daas."

"The men said, (he) has died."

"Daas yin muut."

"You returned to your quarters, so that the thing returns home (and) misses you."

"Yi wa ngwa yi de bi wa yi tyang yoe."

"You returned home to your quarters, so that the things of the chief missed you, so that the shilling missed (you). So that the chief returned home with you, so that the shilling missed (you). The chief returned home (****) (and) arrived."

"Yi wa ngwa yi de bi kur tyang yoe de sule tyang. De kur wa ndoe goe de sule tyang. Kur wa [?? toe] wul."

These children turned (and) stood. They said: "Yes." They said: "A bird sits here being able (to sing) a song."

Jap nnoe yir d'yam. Mûep yin: "Mh." Mûep yin: "Ndoe yar t'ong b'ak t'ong b'oot gya yi."

They turned (and) stood again.

Mûep yir d'yam yit.

(He) started this song again.

T'a goe gya nnoe yit.