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are found, the most of which must be deciphered as farms. To the south 
of these groups ruins are found in Kornokfiord, which is a twenty mile 
long and very narrow fiord, surrounded by mountains. At the fiord’s 
inner end two glaciers descend down towards the water from the south, 
and а little further to the right at the head of the fiord a third glacier glides 
down almost reaching the water. Going through a narrow course of 
about 200 ells, one passes the second glacier’s moraine formation of clay 
and gravel. This course is very shallow and can only be traversed by 
boats at high-tide. If one gets through, one comes to an opening at the 
inner end of the fiord, and here, close to the third glacier mentioned, 
stand the ruins of a big farm near a river, carrying glacier water. On 
the north side further up the fiord are ruins of another big farm near 
the lake furthest south along the fiord’s west side. The Greenlanders 
believe in a tradition, connected to this place, of a priest having lived on 
the farm, whose daughter was imprisoned in a little ruin on an island. 
Still further south on the same side of the fiord there are ruins of sheep- 
folds. 
The next fiord is /kafiord, a long narrow fiord; here ruins of two 
farms have been found. 
A legend is connected with this fiord, about the last “Kablunaks” hav- 
ing been overpowered here after having sought refuge here from the outer- 
most parts of the neighbouring fiord Arsukfiord, which lay to the north. 
It is reported that four men with their children escaped onto the ice, 
but it gave way under them and they were drowned. 
In Arsukfiord, into which inmost creek a glacier issues, and in its 
nearest vicinity six groups of ruined farms are found. 
Two groups of ruins have been found in Arpagfikfiord which is a 
twelve mile long narrow Нота lying to the north of Arsukfiord, where 
one of them is certainly a farm. The site of a farm is found in 
Kuannitfiord, and four such groups have been found in Tigssalukfiord 
and its nearest surroundings — the one nearest the north in the Green- 
land colony Tigssaluk (61%? п. lat.) The seven out of the eighteen 
groups of ruins have been mentioned more or less previously by Doc- 
tor FANGE. 
The fiords in succession from south to north evidently formed the 
northern part of the eastern settlement: Dyrafjördr, Thorvaldsfjördr, 
Arnlaugsfjördr, Steinsfjordr and Bergthorsfiördr. 
It is written in Landnama. 
“Arnlaug took Arnlaugsfjördr; but some went to the western settle- 
ment. 
One dares conclude by this that this fiord to begin with was 
the only one inhabited. In this case Arsukfiord must be the one in 
question because it was the best adapted to the establishing of farms 
and because it was the third mentioned in succession. 
