212 DANIEL BRUUN. 
free of ice during the summer, lies a farm on a tongue of land nearest 
to the centre of the three glaciers (refer to page 203). — Otherwise 
Kangerdluarssuk’s coasts are uninhabitable. 
Finally one more group of ruins is to be found south of Kangerd- 
luarssuk. Access is not difficult to all the groups of ruins last mentioned. 
Whilst thus we can see that the ford was, to a great extent, inha- 
bited at the time of the Norsemen it is not the case now-a-days. 
There is namely only one single place constantly inhabited, Niakornar 
on the southern side of the entrance to Kangerdluarssuk; but notwith- 
standing this there is a constant lively traffic of capturers and people 
from the neighbouring fiords. The seals breed during May in Tasiussak 
and Kangerdluak, and in the rest of the fiord there is better capturing 
of seals than in the neighbouring fiords on account of there being so much 
ice where the seals maintain themselves. In the summer for instance the 
hunters leave Igaliko in their kayaks crossing Tunugdliarfik so as to 
hunt in the parts near Tasiussak, and during the winter they go on the same 
expedition on snow-skates so as to capture seals on the ice at thebreathing 
holes, which the animals keep open. Capturers also come from other 
habitations to the interior of the fiord, where on the whole there is lively 
traffic. The Umiaxs even venture as early in the year, as April, when 
the fiord-ice as well as the calf-ice is driven away by a rapid current, 
and there is open water for a fortnight. Fuel is fetched from the thickets, 
and when the salmon go up the rivers in July, the Greenlanders go there 
in order to fish. In September the big rivers near Exaluit are visited 
by people from Niaxornak, when they return home from capturing and 
fishing in the skerries near the coasts. 
The east side of Sermilikfiord is limited by the high //imausak penin- 
sula the face of which is steep and uninhabitable. Nearly all the year 
round; /safiord is thus filled with calf-ice from the glaciers at the head 
ofthe fiord, therefore access by sea, to the Norse farms there, must have 
been as extremely difficult during the summer, ın the olden days as it 
is now. During the winter when the fiord ice formed a glacier, all inter- 
course could go that way. These unfortunate conditions of communi- 
cation have however, to a certain degree been redressed by a con- 
nection over land to the head of Erie’s fiord, across the comparatively 
level land that is to be found there. 
Sermilikfiord’s southern prolongation /kerssuak (now Bredefiord) has 
many big branches, with islands and peninsulas on its north side, and 
here stood some farms in the Norse age. The south side was mostly 
occupied by the island Tugtutor, where there also were farms. We re- 
member, that this island was presumeably the ancient Langey with eight 
farms. Three of them are found, and several more are sure to appear 
some day when these regions will be examined more closely. 
According to Ivar, Mioafiord (Mjévafj:) (i.e. ‚the narrow fiord) 
issues from Breidafiord ; it must be Torssukatar (i. e. “the narrow sound”) 
