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DANIEL BRUUN. 
The farm Drangar was visited in 1914 by First Lieutenant (now 
Captain) Н. STYRMEr of the Generalstaff who was surveying on Horn- 
strands. He went (9 July) northwards from Reykiarfiord by motor- 
boat. After having rounded the most easterly corner of Drangarnir, 
where four big Drangar form the most easterly point of Drangahals one 
reaches the farm, which lies on a little point, beyond which one finds 
several rocks, similar to the bay, between Drangarnir and Geiroljsgnup, 
to the northwest, which is filled with rocks. Immediately south of 
the farm the rocks rise to a. 300 m high and the top part (a. 100 m 
high) is very steep, on the southwest and west one finds a broad valley 
with a river running through it, and from the valley the ground rises 
towards the glacier, which cannot be seen from the farm. Towards 
the northwest Gezrolfsgnup rises to a. 450 m. 
The farm itself is, according to Icelandie conditions, a particularly 
large and excellent farm. A two story house built of concrete, was the 
dwelling of many persons, the widow two sons, one daughter, two old 
women, two men, two boys and one or two maidservants. 
The farm had two to three acres of big well kept “Tun”? 
Hundreds of eider-duck live on the rocks round about. The stock 
is composed of five horses, three to four cows and numbers of sheep, 
giving a good income. A number of seals are caught, ete. The whole 
offers a prosperous and favourable impression. 
Styrmer searched in vain for information concerning Eric the Red; 
the inhabitants could not point out any traces of old habitation. But 
there is no possibility of a doubt that this is the place where Eric the 
Red’s father annexed land. His home has disappeared long ago; it may 
possibly be hidden under the present house. When the inhabitants 
wished to go southwards they had to follow a path up between the 
Drangar. Between Drangar and Enginess they passed through a country 
rich with grass, where there was a great deal of floating timber in the 
bay, besides many sea-bird’s eggs on some of the islands. Seals were to be 
caught on the rocks and there was also fishing. Horses, sheep, goats and 
cows could find food on the mountains, the fields near the farm produced 
grass for the animals during the winter. It was often dangerous to pass 
through the mountains on account of the mountain-slides which happened 
just as often then, as now. The Icelandic authors EGGERT OLAFSSON 
and Brarnı PArsson, who visited the farm in the 18th century, write 
of all the dangers they were exposed to during their ride over the mount- 
ains, where there were terrible squalls, and where they heard the mount- 
ain slides thunder as if canons had been fired and cover everything 
with dust. The inhabitants lived in fear of the slides coming down over 
them: but where should they escape to? Even the cattle and horses ran 
`Тип means fenced homefields, or grassy tracts encercling each farm and 
fertilized by dung. 
