178 DANIEL BRUUN. 
speaks ol. The biggest island is Sermersök, which southern point one 
has wished to identify as Hvarf, which I consider wrong. 
[var says further more: 
“Next to Ketilsfiord les Rampnessfiord [evidently a misprint for 
Hrafnsfjordr], and a long way up this fiord hes a nuns’-convent Ordinis 
Sancti Benedicti; the convent owns everything up to the head of the Йога 
and from “Voge” [Vaagar| church outwards, which is consecrated to King 
St. Oluf. Vaagar church owns everything beyond the fiord. There are 
many holms inside the fiord, and the convent divides everything with 
the cathedral. There is much warm water on these holms which in the 
winter is so hot that no one can approach it; but in the summer it 
is moderately warm, so that one can bathe in it, and many search 
remedies there, to be healthy and cured of illnesses”. 
Rafnsfiord (Hrafnsfjördr) is evidently the same as Unartorfiord of 
our days. It was one of the first fiords that one could identify with se- 
curity. The fact is that there is no doubt of Ivar’s account referring to 
some warm springs, which are to be found on the island Unartok (i. е. 
the boiling) in the mouth of the fiord. The nuns convent of the Benedict- 
order lay presumably near the present Sarkarmıut at the inner end of 
the fiord. Holm here mentions some very collapsed ruins on a swampy 
plain, which is overgrown with grass and heather. The outward part 
of Unartokfiord has fairly flat coasts. All the islands in- and outside this 
lord are low and rounded. 
Eric the Red reached as far south as Rafnsfiord on his voyage ot 
discovery (refer to page 26). Later on Rafn annexed land in Rafns- 
пота. 
Here Ivar again skips а fiord which is mentioned both in Land- 
nama and in the church inventory, the fourth church of which is said 
to lie “on Vaagar in Siglufjordr”; Biörn also mentions “Siglufjérdr (with 
a church)”. 
This fiord must be identical with Agdluitsokfiord lying inside Syd- 
proven, having the two branches Amitsuarssuk (m N. W.) and Sioralik 
(in N. E.). Between these two fiord branches lies a mighty mountain range, 
Akuliaruserssuak with summits of over 5000 feet (1600 metres). A hollow 
leads from the head of the one fiord branch to the other. 
Ivar relates further 
“After this comes “Eynerfiord” |Einarsfjördr| and between it and 
the above mentioned “Rampnsfiord” |Rafnsfjördr] lies a large royal farm, 
which belongs to the king, and that farm is called Foss: and there stands 
a costly church consecrated to St. Nicolaus, which the king could en- 
feoll, and near by lies a big lake full of fish, when it is high water and rain 
falls; and when the water runs out and is decreased, then fish without 
number remain behind lying on the sand”. 
The original account is evidently somewhat misrepresented in the 
later translations and reproductions. The “costly church” consecrated 
