118 DANIEL BRUUN. 
\rnald consented to undertake the office, after which he was consecrated 
to it by the Archbishop Asser in Lund (1124). 
Einar now took the new bishop on board, and they sailed (c. 1125) 
with Greenland as their objective point. In the mean time, storms drove 
them to Iceland, where they were obliged to spend the winter, im the 
south of the country. The bishop stayed with the celebrated SÆMUND 
Fropı at Oddi, whilst Einar spent the winter in Eyiafialla district. 
The Norwegian Arnbiörn sailed the same year with two ships likewise 
wishing to reach Greenland; but he was driven by rough weather to the 
uninhabited parts, and perished there. In the meantime we find bishop 
Arnald, in the year 1126, in Iceland’s court at Thingvellir, he subse- 
quently left with Einar for Greenland. 
The bishop’s-see was now established at Gardar. Here a big church 
built in the shape of a cross was soon erected, and was dedicated to Sr. 
NIKOLAUS. It was built of stone and earthen walls and its whole length 
was 25 meters. On the whole at Gardar, which was a very big farm, 
and will be described later on, there was built a number of big houses 
partly of red sandstone blocks. There are now only slight remains of the 
foundations left of all these buildings; but in the neighbouring Green- 
land houses one sees big stones, which have been taken from the Norse 
houses. 
A few years after the foundation of the bishopric (about 1129) 
Arnbiörn and his companions’ bodies, as well as the stranded ships and 
goods, were found in the innermost part of a fiord at Hvitserk, near the 
most southern point of Greenland. The bigger ship was brought together 
with the goods and the deceaseds’ bones to the eastern settlement, where 
the ship was conveyed to the bishop or Gardar cathedral, who possibly 
had the ownership of the stranding place. According to Icelandic laws, 
found goods belonged to the finder if the owner did not report himself 
within the course of three years. This decision was probably also in 
force in Greenland. If the bishop’s-see appropriated the ship before 
the expiration of the respite, it was most likely because they did not 
think that the rightful owner would announce himself in time. In the 
meantime the news of what had happened, especially that the ships 
were found and claimed by the bishop-see, had reached Norway, and 
the Norwegian Ossur and several of the shipwrecked’s family went to 
Greenland so as to demand their supposed inheritance. 
\t the same time Kolbein Thorliotsson and Кей Kalfsson as well 
as the Icelander Hermund Kodransson came with several others to 
Greenland, with three ships, where they overwintered, Ossur stayed 
at Gardar, but the rest of the guides in the western settlement. At 
the beginning everything went peacefully as the chief plaintiff had been 
received by the bishop himself. In the course of the winter (c. 1131— 
1132) Össur brought before the bishop his and his coheir’s request of 
the deliverance of the belongings of their relation Arnbiörn; but they 
