190 DANIEL BRUUN. 
brought home, in 1894, a metal bar belonging to a bell. In the churchyard 
a number of bodies with remains of wooden coffins besides stuffs have 
been found. A tombstone has also been found here (page 121). 
It appears both in the “Fosterbrother Saga” (page 86) and the 
tales of Einar Sokkisson (page 122) that the assize Was held near the 
bishop’s palace and that booths for the assize folk were found there. Such 
were well known from the Icelandic assize places. They were rectangular 
with walls of earth and grass-turfs, and over which a tent cover was 
raised during the assize. 
Outside the homefield close to the dike and near the coast lay some 
very indistinet remains of sites, which Clemmensen thought were assize- 
booths. The locality excellently suits the conditions of the assize places 
mentioned in the Saga. Many old Greenland houses have meanwhile 
stood on this spot and thereby caused disturbances. Clemmensen says: 
“If one takes for granted, that several of the booths (like in Iceland) 
were Joined together, and that each compartment in the sites had been 
a booth, then there were found about 18 booths (in any case certainly 
13) in the sites” (page 91). 
The assize booths were turned according to the plain, and several 
of them have the door turned towards it. The place was well adapted 
to an assize ground, it lay, as hinted at, outside the homefield, in any 
case near the bay, where the ships and boats lay to. — A big round fold 
in the vieinity has perhaps been a stable for horses. 
The tale in the Fosterbrother saga about Thormod Kolbrunar- 
skiald, which took place at the assize, “agrees in every detail.” 
Finally the farm Vik at the innermost of the fiord is mentioned. It 
has evidently stood in a little creek on the north side of the head of the 
fiord, where there are ruins of a farm (page 97). 
Hvalseyjarfjördr and Kambstadafjördr. 
Ivar says furthermore: 
“Next to Einarsfiord lies Hualtzöerfiord” |Hvalseyjarfjérdr|; there 
a church stands which is called “Hualtzöefiordtz’”” — church. 
It owns the whole fiord besides the whole “Rambstadefiord” | Kamb- 
stadafjordr| which hes nearest to it. Within this fiord stands a big royal 
farm, which belongs to the king, it is called “Thyodhyllestad” [Thiod- 
hildarstadir). 
\ fiord inventory speaks of it: 
‘The eleventh church in Hvalseyjarfjordr [now Kaxortorfiord]”. 
The fiord has evidently derived its name from Hvalsey, an island 
in the middle of the fiord; the present Greenlanders call the island Arpat- 
sivik (refer to page 144). At the head of this fiord stands an excellently 
built and well preserved church ruin on a plain, which stretches down to 
the fiord from the mountain Какоток. А 12—13 m high precipitous 
