82 DANIEL BRUUN. 
the original saga edition (from about the year 1200) the tale of Thormod's 
doings in Greenland are very interesting, and they give an excellent 
picture of the revenge of bloodshed, and the state of culture in Greenland 
shortly after the death of Eric the Red. 
We meet here in Einarsfiord at the farm Lønguness chieftain 
Thorgrim Einarsson Trolle, who, next to Thorkel Leifsson at Brattahlid 
was the most powerful man in the eastern settlement, having many 
people under him. He was evidently one of the Godes and a member 
of the law-courts at Gardar-thing (assize). 
In the year 1022 he went on a commercial journey to Norway, 
Denmark, and England, in which countries he gained great riches. On 
the journey home he touched Iceland, where he attacked and killed 
Thorgeir Havarsson, whose ship he seized and took along with him to 
Greenland. 
When Thormod received the news of his foster-brother's death, he 
immediately decided to be revenged. First he went to Norway, to 
King Olaf who seems to have been interested in Thormod's plan of 
travelling to Greenland so as to carry out his revenge. A Greenlander 
by the name of Skuf was there at the time with his ship ready to leave 
[ог home. Thormod bargained himself onboard, and took leave of King 
Olaf who on this occasıon gave him a sword and a gold ring, likewise 
giving him an introduction to Thorkel Leifsson. 
After many misfortunes, they reached Ericsfiord late in the autumn, 
and Thormod was well received at Brattahlid. He remained in Green- 
land for three years (1024—27). Skuf lived on the other side of the fiord 
on his farm (Stokkaness) opposite Battahlid. A man named Biarnı 
lived with him, a clever and kindly man, capable and skilful in many 
ways. They had developed a strong friendship and got on well 
together. Gest, a man Skuf had taken with him from Norway, stayed 
with farmer Thorgrim at his farm Vik (in the neighbourhood of Gardar) 
in Einarsfiord (refer to page 91). 
Thorgrim Trolle lived at Lönguness with his widowed sister Thordis 
and her four sons: Bödvar, Falgeir, Thorkel and Thord all of them 
active and bave men. Thorun, another sister of Thorgrim Trolle, also 
lived in Einarsfiord on the farm Langaness (which lay either in the 
neighbourhood of Lönguness or perhaps was even the farm itself — as 
the resemblance of names is striking) with her son Lior a restless person. 
On the farm Hamar (in the eastfiord now Igalikofiord’s eastern arm) 
Sigrid lived with her son Sigurd an active, peaceful, and kindly man. 
At Brattahlid in Eriesfiord, where Thormod was a guest, there was a 
steward or slave called Lodin who lived with a woman named Sigrid 
who was told to care for Thormod. 
Thorkel and his guests slept in a building which had no connection 
with the rest of the houses [Thorkel therefore can hardly have been 
married |, and where a light burned every night, but the rest of his people 
