220 DANIEL BRUUN. 
ramparts.” From the smiling and warm regions of the interior of Ame- 
ragdla where there were many Norse farms, we come further up the Ате- 
ralikfiord. This fiord is, especially outside, very dangerous to navigate in 
an Umiak on account of frequent heavy storms. There are only a few 
places on the high, steep, rocky coasts where one can land. In a 
couple of places — in ereeks or in little narrow valleys — there have been 
dwelling places for the Norsemen, possibly only used in the summer, 
when the Angmagssats had to be collected. 
On the whole one can say that Ameralikfiord has hardly been in- 
habited outside. Here Præstefiord lies on the south side. Hans Egede 
however tried cereal culture here, but without success. Hjortetakken 
(i. e. “deer-horn”) a very characteristic mountain with two small protu- 
berances, which resemble the embryoantler of a reindeer buck; rears on 
a headland between Ameralik and a little fiord soutk of Godthaab. Beyond 
this colony lies Hans EEGEDE’S first dwelling place near the socalled /gd- 
Iuerünerit where in 1903 we found ruins on an island in the skerries. 
With regard to the eastern settlement there is comparatively more 
material to refer to in the Saga, fiord, and church inventories ete., but 
il one tries to situate the names, mentioned in these written transmis- 
sions, one is under very unfortunate circumstances with regard to the 
western settlement, the names of ten fiords are known, but the communi- 
cations, in the saga concerning the conditions of this settlement and 
its topogralical condition are extremely slight. A farm is spoken of in 
Lysefiord, where Thorstein Ericsson died, the settlement being likewise 
mentioned a few times; but otherwise one gets no communication, 
and even Ivar BAARDSON is as brief as possible concerning fiords and 
churches, but on the other hand, his records of the destruction of the 
western settlement is of great historical worth (refer to page 131). Не 
relates briefly: 
“From the eastern settlement to the western settlement is a “tölt 
sides” and everywhere uninhabited, and foremost in the western settle- 
ment stands a big church, which is called “Stensness-”church. № was 
at one time a cathedral and a bishop-see.” 
According to the different fiord and church inventories Finnur Jöns- 
son says the fiords in the western settlement were as follows: Lysufjordr 
(from lysa a sort of cod-fish) with a church at Sandness (or Saudaness?), 
Hornafjördr, Andafjördr (church ?) Svartifjördr, Agnafjördr (a church at 
Hôp) Rangafjördr, Lodinsfjördr, Straumsfjördr, (a church) Eyjarfjördr. 
It is possibly correct that Godthaabsfiord is the ancient Rangafiord 
(i.e. the crooked). The shape alone points to it, but also a church is 
to be found at Ujaragssuit, which must be the one in Anavik. It is even 
probable that Ameralikfiord is Lysufiord, as it is the fiord nearest the 
south in the western settlement. 
;etween these two, the inventory names four other fiords, where 
there is excellent room for them, as is seen on the map. 
