146 DANIEL BRUUN. 
landers succeeded in saving themselves by flight; but those left behind 
had to lay down their lives. This sad lot specially befell all the women 
and children, —and now the Greenlanders prepared themselves for a whole 
winter, to be revenged. When spring came and the wind according to 
eustom still blew into the fiords, the Greenlanders rowed unnoticed 
from Narsak, round the land on which the colony Julianehaab lies at 
present. But as soon as they had reached the mouth of Kakortokfiord, 
they lay in their oars and let the boats drift before the wind, which 
bore straight onto the dwellings of the Kablunaks. They noticed the 
“Umiak” (a boat rowed by women), approaching the fiord, came out 
of their houses put their hands to their foreheads and looked across the 
fiord. But being deceived by the shining white colour of the “Umiak” 
they took the Greenlander’s crafts for floating pieces of ice and went again 
into their houses without any misgiving. During the night the Green- 
landers landed in a bay a few gun-shots away from the present ruins, 
where the coast was, and still is, vastly overgrown by the so called heather 
and the juniper berry. They collected a lot of this, which they used 
to bar all the entrances to the Kablunak’s houses, and thereafter 
set them on fire. The inhabitants, who all lay in their deepest sleep, 
were burned except Ungortok, who with his son, a little boy, under his 
arm sprang out of one of the windows in the burning church and 
escaped eastwards. The Greenlanders pursued him in the beginning, but 
all except one, gave up the persuit by degrees, Ungortok reached the 
eastern end of the socalled church mountain, without the Greenlanders, 
who were armed with bows and arrows, being able to come within 
shooting distance. But Ungortok was much too exhausted from running, 
with his burden, to be able to escape to the mountains. He therefore 
ran for a time round a lake there, so as to avoid his obstinate pursuer. 
At last he saw he would be obliged to throw his son into the lake so as 
to save his own life. He succeeded for the present. He escaped to Igaliko, 
from where he escaped further south.” 
Now an account follows relating how his hiding places were dis- 
covered and he himself assailed. 
“Later on a Greenlander (whose brother had been killed by Ungor- 
tok, slashed by his axe at the attack on Arpatsivik) sueceeded in 
hitting him with a magic arrow, made of the extremest cross-piece of a 
barren woman’s hip-bone. Thus died the last of the old Kablunaks.” 
According to another Eskimoe legend the last Kablunak at Igaliko, 
was called Olave or Olavik [evidently Olaf], and it is said he was so 
strong that he was able to carry a walrus on his back or a fullgrown 
“Svartside” (Greenland seal) under each arm. This Olave was very rich 
and had many cows. 
These legends, whereof the one about Ungortok, is evidently closely 
connected with the one already mentioned from the western settlement, 
clearly shows the manner in which the Norsemen were killed by degrees 
