108 DANIEL BRUUN. 
with their ideas of life after death, if they killed each other fight- 
ing, and still were sure of glory in the other life. But Helgi who was 
a more earnest christian than his shipmates, advised them to pray and 
invoke God — and they now sighted Greenland: 
“There the glaciers land they knew 
and Ericsfiord as well 
to Falgeirsvik they steered 
and there the ship found harbour. 
A peasant rich and mighty 
— in the district — Forni named, 
on Solarfiall he lived 
and hospitably received them. 
Solarfiall was a farm under a high mountain of the same name, 
lying either in the innermost part of Ericsfiord or in the present Tasiusak 
bay, one of the old middle fiords, to which there is an easy passage from 
Eriesfiord. 
We will now turn further south in the eastern settlement to the farm 
Heriolfsness (now Ikigait). Here lived a peasant, Skeggı hinn prüdi, 
(Skeggi the proud) who was an excellent man, and in good favour with 
all. His wife was called Thorun; she was a consort worthy of him, 
who only — as the saga says — had one fault, namely an ugly tooth. In 
the neighbourhood of Heriolfsness, in a little house Бу Ве shore ап elderly, 
cunning man, Thorvard Hreim, lived with two sons and a woman called 
Grima. She was old and skilled in the art of witchcraft, in which, accord- 
ing to report, she instructed the whole family. At last people forbade 
the family to live in the settlement, and the father and sons were de- 
clared outlaws. 
“They north to Greipar went 
there Greenland’s settlements end.” 
Skeggi also went up there in a well equipped ship; but he did not 
return, and one suspects, — certainly rightly — Hreims sons of having 
attacked and murdered Skeggi. 
Thorun was a widow for some years. Each time she was betrothed 
her future husband died of an illness, which one assumed was brought 
upon the one concerned through witcheraft by Hreim’s sons. 
Helgi now let himself be persuaded to betroth himself to the rich 
widow at Heriolfsness although his mind was still set on Thorkatla. 
“A glorious wedding was held 
but Helgi’s grief yielded not. 
Him no sport delighted, 
and silent he always remained. 
