Palug Rayeh & Palug I'it Go Hunting

Sineh Nu'uh Ulun tells the folk story of Palug Rayeh and Palug I'it in the Remudu dialect of Kelabit. In this story, the two brothers go out hunting with dogs. The younger brother, Palug I'it, is successful, but the older brother, Palug Rayeh, gets himself into difficulties as always. The recording was made in Bario on 11th February 2019 whilst Sineh Nu'uh Ulun demonstrated how to weave a mat.

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00:00:02mala lem ayu'
I'm going to talk about...

00:00:05nih ieh la' ninger sekunuh
now she wants to hear the story

00:00:08lem ayu' Palug I'it diweh Palug Rayeh keyh
about Palug I'it and Palug Rayeh

00:00:14lem ceh co keyh
one day

00:00:17neh neh kenanak nedih suk i'it ih muit ieh muit uku'
the younger sibling wanted to invite his brother to go hunting with the dogs

00:00:26"ooh, mey ko ngi" keneh
"you go on your own", he said

00:00:29"am uih mey"
"I'm not going"

00:00:33mey neh Palug I'it muit uku' keyh
so Palug I'it went out hunting with the dogs

00:00:39ceh neh...
there was a...

00:00:41ngurung neh uku' nedih
his dog started barking

00:00:45"non neh?" keneh
"what is it?" he said

00:00:47tela'o
barking deer

00:00:49"ooh am ngalap ineh"
"oh I don't want that one"

00:00:53mey nieh
he went on

00:00:56ngurung uku' nih beruhman keyh
the dog started barking again

00:00:58"non sineh?"
"what's that one?"

00:00:59payo
sambhur deer

00:01:00"oooh, am"
"oooh, no"

00:01:02"am ngalap payo neh"
"don't take the sumbhar deer"

00:01:05pengeh, ngurung uku' neh beruh
after that, the dog barked again

00:01:08"non neh?" keneh
"what's that?", he said

00:01:10baka
wild boar

00:01:15"ken lemuh ieh?" keneh
"is it fat?" he said

00:01:16"oooh rugu'"
"thin"

00:01:17"ooh am ngalap nuk rugu' ih"
"ooh don't take the thin ones"

00:01:21pengeh neh mey nieh beruh
after that he went on again

00:01:24ngurung uku' neh man
the dog barked again

00:01:27neh ieh mala
and he said

00:01:30"non neh?" keneh
"what's that?" he said

00:01:32baka
wild boar

00:01:33"ken lemuh ieh?"
"is it fat?"

00:01:37"teluh bua' tisu'"
"three fingers fat"

00:01:39"oooh am!"
"oooh, no!"

00:01:40"ngalap suk lemuh ko"
"get a fatter one"

00:01:44mey nieh
off he went

00:01:49ngurung uku' neh beruh
the dog barked again

00:01:52seh baka keyh
it was a wild boar

00:01:54lemuh baka sineh
this wild boar was fat

00:01:56ken kapal palad ih
as thick as the palm

00:02:01"oooh ngalap ieh"
"take that one"

00:02:03"doo' lemuh sineh"
"that one's nice and fat"

00:02:06neh nieh...
then he...

00:02:08ieh ngalap baka sineh keyh
he caught the wild boar and went home

00:02:12muli' nieh
and went home

00:02:13muit baka sineh
taking the wild boar with him

00:02:15mey ruma' keyh
he went home

00:02:17neh nieh muwer dih
and then he butchered it

00:02:19nanek dih
and boiled it

00:02:22nih nieh mepaad dih
then he went to divide it up

00:02:23merey ngen kenanak nedih
to give it to his sibling

00:02:25Palug Rayeh
Palug Rayeh

00:02:30"ooh, am la' ngen idih!", keneh
"oooh, I don't want that!", he said

00:02:35"uih mey", keneh "labo kineh"
"I'll go myself and get meat like this", he said

00:02:36"uih mey, laba la'ah", keneh
"I'll go and get even more", he said

00:02:38neh nieh ara' ngalap labo birey kenanak nedih suk i'it ih keyh
so he refused to take the meat from his younger brother

00:02:47neh
then

00:02:52mey nieh
he went

00:02:55sukup rayeh nih?
is this big enough? [of the mat]

00:03:08mey nieh
so he went

00:03:11ara' nieh ngen suk birey
he didn't want the one that was given

00:03:15mey neh Palug Rayeh kedieh
so Palug Rayeh went himself

00:03:19muit uku' nedih keyh
and went hunting with his dogs

00:03:27mey ngurung uku' dih keyh
and the dog barked

00:03:29edteh baka alap neh
he caught a wild boar

00:03:30rugu' tu-tu'uh
really thin

00:03:33leng-leng rugu' neh baka sineh
that wild boar was extremely thin

00:03:38mo, muli' ieh mey ruma'
so he came back home

00:03:42kineh nieh nuru' suk awan nedih melad mayar ih keneh
and asked his wife to prepare the mat and the butcher's block

00:03:48"melad epin", keneh
"spread out the mat", he said

00:03:51neh nieh melad epin ih
so she spread out the mat

00:03:54mey nieh, diweh...
then she, they...

00:04:03neh nideh ngarar ih keyh
then they smoked it

00:04:07ngarar ih
smoked it over a fire

00:04:08"ngudeh niko ngalap suk rugu'-rugu' ih?!"
"why did you catch such a thin one?!"

00:04:10ken suk awan nedih ngeneh keyh
his wife said to him

00:04:14neh diweh ngarar baka nuk ineh
so they smoke the wild boar meat

00:04:18pengeh, mey diu' nideh
afterwards they go and bathe

00:04:22tatad deh mey diu' keyh
they had already left to go and bathe

00:04:26mulun apui liang ih
the fire was still going underneath

00:04:29arar baka nih
this smoked wild boar

00:04:31mesib neh raran
the shelf above the fireplace burnt

00:04:32mesib teh ruma' dedih
and their house burnt down

00:04:36kineh men cerita ineh ngeneh
so that's how the story went

00:04:39sekunuh sineh belaan deh ngilad
that's the story that they told back then

00:04:45pengeh men keyh
after that

00:04:47mey nubeh men ideh man
they also went to poison fish

00:04:51mey nubeh deh
they went to poison fish

00:04:55Palug... Palug Rayeh dih keyh
Palug Rayeh, that is

00:05:03neh nieh... luang matey ngen tubeh dih dih
then he.... the fish died from the poison

00:05:12neh nieh...
then he...

00:05:15ieh ngalap bulu' keyh, Palug Rayeh
he fetches a bamboo, Palug Rayeh

00:05:20inan neh naru' luang keyh
for him to put the fish in

00:05:25neh neh matey neh luang ngen tubeh
the fish died from the poison

00:05:29neh nieh ngalap ih
and then he went to collect them

00:05:33ngalap luang
collect the fish

00:05:34kineh nieh nipa dih lem bulu' ih
and put them in the bamboo

00:05:37tu'en neh nipa keyh
he puts one in

00:05:38tutu' tidih
and out it falls

00:05:40tu'en neh nipa keyh
he puts one in

00:05:42tutu' tidih
and out it falls

00:05:45liwan neh ken luang nuk tideh keh, luang beken
maybe he thought the fallen fish were some other fish

00:05:50seh tideh luang suk na'ah tieh keyh
but they were the fish he had just tried to pack away

00:05:54kuleng-kuleng tutu' mey lem ebpa' ih
falling back into the water again and again

00:05:59en neh ngalap ieh keyh
he would pick it up

00:06:01neh nieh nipa ih lem bulu' keyh
and put it in the bamboo

00:06:05mey nieh, neh nieh mabeh bulu' mey ruma' ngi
then he went and carried his bamboo back home

00:06:14neh neh nieh nuru' suk awan nedih melad epin ih keyh
and then he asked his wife to prepare the mat

00:06:20bilad neh epin ih
she rolled out the mat

00:06:23neh nideh ngeruat
then they took it out

00:06:25ieh ngeruat bulu' lem bekang nedih
he took the bamboo out of his basket

00:06:30neh nideh ni'er keyh
and then they looked

00:06:33ieh nutug bulu' keyh
he tipped up the bamboo

00:06:35am teh luang ih
but there weren't any fish

00:06:37neh nieh mala,
then he said,

00:06:38"eh?"
"eh?"

00:06:41"peh teh luang ih?" kedeh
"where are the fish?" they said

00:06:43ken suk awan nedih ngeneh
said his wife to him

00:06:45"oooh neh men ideh senipa kuh lem bulu' na'ah"
"well I put them into the bamboo just now"

00:06:49keneh keyh
he said

00:06:52ni'er deh keyh
they looked down

00:06:53pauu teh bulu' ih
there was a hole in the bamboo

00:06:57pauu bulu' ih
the bamboo had a hole it it

00:06:59kadi' neh luang nuk ineh am mey tetem lem bulu'
that's why the fish didn't stay inside the bamboo

00:07:04"oooh, ngudeh ko kineh-kineh ken da'at keyh, Palug Rayeh?"
"oooh, Palug Rayeh, why are you so stupid?"

00:07:09"pu'un tiko na'am naru' bukuh ih"
"you're the one who didn't leave the nodes on the bamboo"

00:07:15"kapeh nideh na'am tutu'?"
"of course they all fell out!"

00:07:17"am nuk idih ngi," kedeh ngeneh
"there's nothing here", they said to him

00:07:20"ooh ru'ut reriak"
"I'll get you back one of these days!"

00:07:23"kapeh tidih?"
"how do you like that?"

00:07:26kineh cerita dih belaan lun merar malem keyh
so that's the story our elders used to tell