16 DANIEL BRUUN. 
back again but did not get them. After that Eric fetched them from 
Breidabolstad but Thorgest persued him. They fought near the farm 
Drangar (the neighbouring farm to Breidabolstad). Two of Thorgest's 
sons were killed besides several other men. After that they both collected 
men, Styr, Eyjolf from Sviney, the Sons of Thorbrand from Alptafiord 
and Thorbiörn Vifilsson were on Eric's side, but the sons of Thord the 
Geller, Thorgeir of Hitardal, Aslak of Langadal, and Illugi his son, as- 
sisted Thorgest. Eric and his accomplices were pronounced outlaws at 
the assize of Thorsness. He equipped a ship in Ericsvdgr (Eric's inlet) 
but Zyjolf hid him in Dimunarvdgr (Dimun inlet) whilst Thorgest and 
his assistants searched him on the islands. Thorbiôrn, Eyjolf and Styr 
accompanied him to sea past the islands. He told them that he in- 
tended searching that country which Gunnbiörn, son of Ulf the Crow, 
saw when the storm drove him westwards past Iceland, and he found 
Gunnbiörns-skerries. But he declared at the same time that should 
he find that country he would return to his friends”. 
The author visited the scene of the above named incidents in 
1905 from Stykkisholm on the southside of Breidafiord. 
In fine weather nothing can be more beautiful than the archipe- 
lago here, a complex of small islands between the mighty mountain 
ranges on Snefellsness in the south, and Skardstrand in the north. As 
already mentioned, the entrance to Hvammsfiord hes between the groups 
of islands. 
Masses of sea birds breed on the holms and rocks and the eider- 
duck’s nest, one finds everywhere. Not far from here, lie five or six 
bigger islands with small mountains and overgrown ravines side by side. 
Brokey is the biggest, and lies in the middle. In Sudrey there is the site 
of a little habitation surrounded by some cultivated ground. Here had 
been Eric the Red’s dwelling Tradir which was his place of resort 
after his banishment from Haukadal. From here, one could see the 
farms Breidabolstad and Drangar on the southern coast of Snæfells- 
ness, where Eric had fought. In Üxney, some very insignificant sites 
were shown as the farm Ericsstad, where Eric had also lived. The place 
was well chosen, for not far from there a creek cut its way between 
the rocks, and it was in this socalled Hricsvdgr (Erics’ inlet) that the 
first equipment of the ship to Greenland took place. They told us that 
some broken down stone-waHs that we saw had been, in Eric’s time, 
either boat-houses or booths. 
The conditions, in both places, where Eric had lived after his 
banishment from Haukadal, had evidently been very limited accor- 
ding to the size and accomodation of the houses — even more insigni- 
ficant than Ericsstad in Haukadal, but an energetic man could get food. 
There were birds and fish enough to be had, also grass for the sheep. 
Not very far north of Oxney les Dimunarklakkar, a beautiful is- 
land which is characterized, to an uncommonly high degree, by mighty 
