The broken string

The broken string

Lucy Lloyd |xam notebooks

Dia!kwain (David Hoesar) (V)

<i>The sorcerer !nuin|kúïten. In the Katkop dialect, by Díä!kwãin (L V.-15. 5079-5101, 5104-5109).</i> A song sung by Xaa-ttin (Dia!kwain's father) after the death of the magician !nuin-|kui-ten.

1) See also <i>!nuin-|kui-ten (who was a sorcerer or magician) </i>and <i>What Xaa-ttin used to sing (the broken string)</i>, 2) This story is found in Book V-15

story

July 1875

Poetry

History (personal)

Relations with others

song ( about the broken string )

song ( Xaa-ttin's, about !nuin-|kui-ten )

personal history ( of Dia!kwain's father Xaa-ttin )

personal history ( the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten )

sorcerer ( death of )

sorcerer ( a lament about )

sorcerer ( and the broken string )

sorcerer ( a song about !nuin-|kui-ten )

sorcerer ( or magician )

sorcerer ( and !nuin-|kui-ten the rainmaker )

!nuin-|kui-ten ( Xaa-ttin's song about )

!nuin-|kui-ten ( the rainmaker or rain-sorcerer )

!nuin-|kui-ten ( and the broken string )

death ( of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten )

death ( and a song sung by Xaa-ttin about the broken string )

lament ( Xaa-ttin's, about the broken string and the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten )

string ( the broken string )

string ( and Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten )

broken string ( and Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten )

rainmaker ( death of )

rainmaker ( a lament about )

rainmaker ( and the broken string )

rainmaker ( a song about !nuin-|kui-ten )

rainmaker ( called !nuin-|kui-ten )

Dia!kwain ( and the broken string )

Dia!kwain ( and his father Xaa-ttin's song about the death of the sorcerer !nuin-|kui-ten )

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