198 DANIEL BRUUN. 
abounded in fish. Great profit was also gained through the hunting of 
hares, foxes, web-footed birds and the like. Reindeer were also found 
in these parts but they have disappeared since then; the capturing of 
seals could also have taken place but it cannot have been as good as in 
Sermilikfiord which was filled with ice. Tunugdliarfikfiord's excellent 
hunting and fishing grounds are now uninhabited, but are chiefly made 
use of by the inhabitants near Igaliko, the neighbouring fiord. 
On the west side of the head of the fiord near Kagssiarssuk a church 
is found on the site of a big Norsefarm. Here presumably Brattahlid 
has stood. 
It is one of the best, if not the best position in the whole fiord for 
a farm, as it has a specially superior upland to the west. 
Somewhat more south on the fiord's east side the 5500 feet high 
mountain /gdlerfigsalik towers (north of the Igaliko tongue). It is cer- 
tain to be the ancient (Dürfell). Beyond these two localities in Eries- 
fiord no other can for the present be settled with certainty. We must 
be content with surmises. 
Finnur Jønsson supposes Dyrness to be the broad headland on 
Ilimaussak peninsula between Tunugdliarfik and Sermilik. 
When it is said that “Midfiord” (i. e. middlefiord) issues from Erics- 
fiord to the N.W., one is inclined to think it the sound, $. of Ilimaussak, 
but the difficulty is this, that in another place the “Midfiorde” [Mid- 
firdir i. e. “middle fiords”] are mentioned, which Е. J. thinks lay inside 
Sermilik (more of which further on), and he assumes that the two names 
designated the same place, therefore he thinks it is a mistake when Mid- 
fiord is said to issue from Eriesfiord. It is on the whole very unfortunate 
that misunderstandings have evidently taken place in the later trans- 
lations or renderings of Ivar’s original records. It is further said, that 
the church under the Solarfjöll [undir Sölarfiöllum] stood in Ericsfiord, 
but it owned the whole “Middle fiord”. But in another place meanwhile 
it is written that the church on Solarfjöll stood in Isafjürdr. 
The church inventory’s eighth church in Brattahlid is evidently the 
same as the above mentioned Leider church (= in Icelandic: Hlidar, 
i.e. the abbreviation of Brattahlidar). 
Landnama says: 
“Eric the Red thereafter annexed Eriesfiord and lived at Brat- 
tahlid; but Leif, his son, after his death.” 
Leif’s son Thorkel also lived at Brattahlid and here (1002) Thorfin 
Karlsefnis and Gudrid Thorbiörnsdaughter’s wedding was held, like- 
wise the plan of the great Vineland journey was laid here. Later 
on the lawmen lived on the farm. In the middle of the eleventh century 
Skald-Helgi is mentioned, and we knew of Sokki Thoresson since 
the first half of the twelfth century. 
The ruins of Brattahlid (refer to Frontispiece) lay exceedingly pic- 
turesquely on both sides of the mouth of the little river, Kagssiarssuk, and 
