144 DANIEL BRUUN. 
any case the Archbishop Eric WALKENDOFF tried, in the beginning of 
the 16th century to equip an expedition to re-discover Greenland. He 
collected all possible accounts about navigation to the country, but he 
incurred disgrace. King Christian II took up the plan himself, and 
SöREN NORDBY was to have left from Bergen, but the trial was not: 
made, as the king had to flee from the country. Possibly one might 
have been able, once more to have found the last Norsemen in the eastern 
settlement. The western settlement had long ago been laid waste. — 
But when at last the search took place it was too late. 
All reliable accounts, of the last fate of the old Norsemen, have 
now disappeared. The present Greenlander’s legend says, that the last 
“Kablunaks” who lived in the eastern settlement were killed by their 
forefathers. One of the legends concerns the island Akpaitevik (Apaits- 
evik or Arpatsivik) in Kakortokfiord. 
“Long after the old Kablunaks [1 e.: Greenlanders of Norwegian 
birth] had been exterminated im the rest of Greenland, they still 
held out in Kakortokfiord [Hvalseyarfiord] where the church especi- 
ally served them as a place of refuge. They here had a master 
or chieftain, whom the Greenlanders [i. e.: Eskimoes] named Ungortok 
or Ongartok [refer to the saga of Ameralikfiord]. Although the under- 
standing between the Kablunaks and the Greenlanders was not of the 
best, they lived however for a long time peacefully in the neighbour- 
hood of each other. But at last an event occurred which was the 
cause of a bloody feud and which ended with the complete destruction 
of the old Kablunaks. A Greenlander from the neighbouring Arpatsivik 
had namely, rowed out in his kayak so as to try some new casting — 
arrows. As he rowed past a little point which in the neighbourhood of 
the ruins juts out into the fiord, a young Kablunak sat down by the 
shore and watched how the Greenlander missed with his bird-arrows. 
He immediately began, to shriek like an auk, so as to scorn him, and 
to shout to the Greenlander: “Try if thou canst hit me!” Не did not 
require being told this twice, he aimed at the Kablunak and wounded 
him mortally. Ungortok submitted to this, when he heard the facts of 
the death. But it did not last long before a Greenlander with rapid 
and quiet oar strokes stole in to another one of the tribe and likewise 
killed him. Now Ungortok became enraged and swore to take venge- 
ance on his Greenland neighbours. They lived on the west side of 
Arpatsivik — — 
So, in order as to surprise them, Ungortok rowed with all his people, on 
a moonlight night in the autumn, over to the east side of the island and then 
went in silence over the fairly high mountain which stood in the middle of 
the island. They reached a lake unperceived on the west side but here 
they were discovered by a Greenland girl who had gone out to fetch water. 
She became aware of their elongated shadows on the surface of the 
lake, hastening to her countrymen she gave alarm. Some of the Green- 
