; р ; (D. B. 1909) 
An old-fashioned farmstead in Iceland, with walls of turf 
(a diary-sketch). 
Chapter X. 
The Norse Ruins. 
BD the first period after the re-discovery of Greenland, nobody 
doubted that both the eastern and western settlements had lain 
to the west of Greenland’s south point, as it is shown on SIGURD 
STEFANSSON’S map from 1570 (90) and Hall's map from 1605. By a 
mistake, which has been pointed out by K. J. V. STEENSTRUP, ari- 
sen through a Greenland map prepared by Bishop THorp THORLAKS- 
son in 1668—69, the eastern settlement was moved over to the east 
coast where, later on, investigators and explorers thought they ought 
to search it. The first time ruins are mentioned after the re-disco- 
very of Greenland — certainly only transitory was in CHRISTIAN 
Lunps reports to King Frederic III concerning Davip DANELL’S jour- 
neys to Greenland in 1625 and 1653. 
Hans EGEDE who came to Greenland in 1721, was, meanwhile, the 
first to acknowledge the remains of houses, etc., which were to be 
found in west Greenland, to be Norse ruins: but he believed that it was 
exclusively a question of the western settlement and he thought that 
the eastern settlement lay on Greenland’s east coast, where he decided 
to search it. For that reason he undertook in 1723 a journey, for if pos- 
sible, to get round Cape Farewell, onto the east coast; but he did not 
even reach that point, as the Greenlanders (Eskimoes) would not go 
further with him than to Nanortalik. He inspected several ruins, in the 
present distriet in Julianehaab, such as, amongst others, the church at 
