Eee и 
Ku 
Chapter VII. 4 
The most remote Greenland. 
hilst the Icelandic colonization in Greenland, as we have heard, 
kept within the two settlements in the present Danish south 
Greenland, the coasts further north were by no means unknown to Green- 
landers. Thither they went, from the eastern and western settlements 
on summer excursions, so as to make use of the excellent territory 
there for the capturing of whales and seals, besides which they here 
collected a number of drifting timber which especially was of import- 
ance for the building of houses. This so-called “northerly place of residence” 
(Nordrseta) or places of resort are mentioned several times. Eric the 
Red seems already to have found some up there. It is said, as one will 
remember, that Thorhal Hunter had been a long time up there with 
Eric during the summer. These summer trips must have been a delight- 
ful diversion for the Norsemen in Greenland, and as they moreover 
brought them great profits, it is easily understood that every one who 
was able to, fitted out an expedition with those distant uninhabited 
parts as a goal. 
We can see that these northly places of residence included amongst 
others Greipar and Kroksfiordsheidi, whilst one was previously, more 
inclined to think, that these places lay far north, on the other side of 
the present Danish colonies in north Greenland, one is more inclined to 
assume now that Greipar must be sought in the region with the deep 
fiords south of Jacobshavn glacier, whilst Kroksfiordsheidi must be 
the region about Disko island and the Vajgatt, (the straights between 
Disko and the mainland). 
