206 DANIEL BRUUN. 
steps into the ice with our alpernstocks — and we succeeded in con- 
tinuing our journey safe and sound. 
At ten o’elock in the morning we reached our tents, after an absence 
of a good fifteen hours. 
The same evening we went through Tunugdliarfikfiord in our 
reaching the sites of Brattahlid at midnight. 
te 
Umiak” 
Breidafjördr and Isafjördr. 
Sermilikfiord with its outer continuation /kerssuak, lay, as already 
indicated to the north of Tunugdliarfik. The names of these fiords agree 
precisely with the ancient ones: /safjordr and Breidafiördr, as the present 
Greenlanders, and the ancient Norsemen each of them named the fiords 
according to their nature. 
Ivar writes after having mentioned Eriesfiord: 
“Further more “Bredfiord” |Breidafj:] lies to the north, and in that 
fiord lies “Myouafiord” [Myévafj:| after that “Eynerfiord” [Eyrafj:] 
further to the north, then “Burgerfiord” |Borgarfj:], then “Lodmunder- 
fiord” [Lodmundarfj:] and nearest to that, east of the eastern settlement 
lies “Issefiord” [Isaf}:]. 
All these islands are inhabited.” 
Biörn Jönsson names: 
“Isafiord, out of it issues Utibliksfiord, after that the Midfiord 
are the most inhabited — —.” 
In the church inventory is written: 
“the ninth church under Sölarfjöll in Isefiord (and) the tenth and 
eleventh in Hvalseyfiord, the twelfth at Gardaness in the Midfiords.” 
Isafiord and Breidafiord are not mentioned in Landnama, where 
of we dare conclude that they were not colonized at once. 
The surroundings of Sermilikfiord are grand. The inner end, near 
the glaciers, is a high mountainous landscape with precipitous coasts which 
have never been inhabited. If from the head one goes, southwards, one 
finds three bays on the east side, Tasiussar, Tasiussarssur and Kangerd- 
luak, excellently adapted to colonization, and here six farms are to be 
found, whereof the four of them lay near the bay (Tasiussak) furthest 
north. Of these farms especially the one near Tingimiut is very big. 
Here the dwelling was excavated in 1894 (refer to p. 208—211). 
Another fairly big farm lay at the inner end of Tasiussak bay towards 
S. E. not far from the former. 
On the fiord’s west side the ruins of two farms in the bay near Eraluit 
are to be found. These farms have been specially unfortunately situated 
with regard to communication with the outer world, as the ice blocks 
all access to them, even during the greatest part of the summer, it was 
a long and difficult way along the coast to two, more southern, farms 
lying close by north of Kangerdluarssuk bay. In this bay, which is nearly 
