150 DANIEL BRUUN. 
Kakortok (Hvalsey church). He also found more ruins in Godthaab’s 
distriet. The first he saw were in Ameralikfiord. Egede persuaded some 
young men to come from Norway to Greenland as colonists. 
Amongst them was PEDER OLSEN from Hvalö in Finmark, also 
called WALLOE, who in the years 1751 to 1753 undertook, for the Green- 
land committee and mission college, his well known voyages of dis- 
covery in southern Greenland, which he reached, south round Cape 
Farewell, and a little way up the east coast to Nenese. He described 
the most important ruins in Tunugdliarfik, Agdluitsokfiord, Unartok- 
fiord and a part of Igalikofiord. 
Another of the Norwegian colonists was ANDERS OLSEN, who be- 
came a merchant in Greenland and who founded Julianehaab, and a 
cattle-breeding farm at Igaliko, where his descendants still live. He was 
the first peasant of more recent times in Greenland. He inspected many 
ruins. 
Regarding the Godthaab district the Iceland-born Dean Е. Тнов- 
HALLESEN, published in the year 1776 an interesting little book "Efter- 
retning om Rudera”. (Accounts of Rudera or the remains of the 
ancient Icelander's dwellings on Greenland's west coast). He mentions 
various ruins in it, partly in the region of Godthaab, which he had seen 
himself, and partly in the region of Julianehaab, which he chiefly de- 
scribes through observations made by Anders Olsen. 
After the Julianehaab colony had been established, merchant 
ÅNDREAS BRUHN and the commercial assistant AARON ÅRCTANDER, 
who were sent out. by the commercial committee, undertook a reconnoitr- 
ing. journey to Julianehaabs-district (1777—79). They described num- 
bers of ruins, and amongst others, the very remote ones lying at the 
inner end of Amitsuarssuk-fiord, as well as those which lie in Kordlortok- 
valley between Tunugdliarfikfiord and Tasiussak which were first visited 
by other Europeans about one hundred years later. 
It was on the basis of the investigations of these men that HEINRICH 
PETER von EGGERS, who did not visit Greenland himself, in 1792 pointed 
out the situation of the eastern settlement in Julianehaab’s region and 
the western settlement in Godthaab’s region. Although his theory was 
strongly attacked later on, it has however in the main stood the test. 
At this juncture, seven churches in all had been found on Greenland’s 
west coast, whilst only three or four were mentioned in the western 
settlement. Solely for this reason the eastern settlement had also to 
be placed on the west coast. 
The well known mineralogist GIESECKE who travelled in Greenland 
(1806—13) mentions ruins in many places, and the Icelander SIGURDUR 
BREIDFJÖRD, who was a cooper in Greenland (1831—35), mentioned in 
his book “From Greenland”, which was published in Copenhagen in 1838, 
that the Norse ruins in Greenland bore witness of the farms resembling 
those he knew in Iceland. 
