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behind, the ground rises towards the undulating land which lies between 
Tunugdliarfik and Тазтаззак; but no specially high or steep grassy slope 
is to be found on the spot. The farm consists of a dwelling house, (No.3) 
and twelve outhouses (Stables, depositories ete.) surrounded the dwelling 
house up to a distance of 300 meters. The dwelling house proper is 25 
meters long, 7x 14 meters broad and consists of seven compartments. 
The chief room was the most easterly, from it a long passage goes west- 
wards. To the left there is the firehouse or kitehen — discernible by its 
great masses of charcoal, and bones ete., besides having an exit to the 
refuse heap, on the south side of the house. At the end of the passage 
is the “Skali” (i. e. sleeping house) with a platform. Three other com- 
partments lie to the north, one (to the west) in which pieces of weaving 
stones were found, one (in the middle) perhaps a meat cupboard or larder, 
and a bigger compartment with a special exit (towards the north). In 
the immediate vicinity of the house stood a “Skemma” (warehouse). 
The other ruins of the farm are 2 or 3 horn cattle, sheep or goat stalls 
with hay barns, 5 provision houses and three or four folds or enclosures 
for hay stacks. Amongst the ruins just north of the brook stands a little 
church (about 15,40 x 850 meters), built of stone with a churchyard. — 
It is most likely the oldest church in Greenland, built by Thiod- 
hilde Eric’s wife. If one mounts the hill above this part of the farm, one 
finds a new group of outhouses (No 28—34), consisting amongst other 
things of cowstalls with appertaining hay barns. Finally there are ruins of 
a little secluded farm — a so called “Kot” — about one kilometer away 
south of the head farm’s homefields, near a smaller river. Here one sees the 
remains of a dwelling house, stables, folds, and a fence (No. 1—7). There 
are some sheep folds at some distance from the farm in a northly di- 
rection. 
We will now briefly mention some other historical places in Eriestiord: 
Stokkaness was erected by Thorbiörn Vifilsson, who moxed to Green- 
land at Eric the Red’s invitation. The farm lay opposite to Brattahlid, 
possibly near Kiagtut, where ruins of a farm are found on a little head- 
land. Thorbiörn’s daughter, the renowned Gudrid, spent several years 
of her youth here at Stokkaness, until she married and moved to Brat- 
tahlid. — When it is said of Tormod Kolbrunarskald that he, dur- 
ing his stay at Stokkaness, took a boat and went with Egil to Einars- 
fiord, one must have forgotten here, that one could not row from the 
one fiord to the other but one had to cross the Igaliko tongue of land. — 
Tormod’s cave lay opposite Stokkaness. Here Skuf and Biarni, who 
at the time were staying at Stokkaness, sought out their friend 
Thormod. The farm, where the couple Gamli and Grima lived, lay at 
the head of Ericsfiord, “close to the glaciers”. The place cannot be 
pointed out more accurately. 
In the church inventories a church at Hardsteinaberg (i. e. whetstone 
