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have been found. The beautiful Zvighedsfiord should be the same as 
Lodinsfjördr, after that Zsortor is identified as Leirufjordr. The name 
suggests it, as both in Eskimoe and the ancient Icelandic-Greenland 
language it means “clayliord” and here there is a specially strong run 
of clay in this fiord. Old Norse cairns and only a few sites are said to 
have been seen on this stretch ol land, which are thought to originate 
irom the Norse age; but on the whole the location of the western settle- 
ment is most uncertain, as the knowledge of these things is too slight 
to establish definite and sure results. 
“The western settlement,” as known was destroyed before “the 
eastern settlement,” and by judging everything it seems through an 
invasion from the north. The eastern settlement may have been de- 
stroyed by the same advaneing stream, or possibly by one resembling 
it from the east coast. 
The Eskimoe inhabitants’ extensive wanderings along the coast, which 
amongst other things, is mentioned by Egede, has now stopped as colonies 
have been established all along the coast line. Now they restriet their 
wanderings, which they undertook, chiefly to the regular tours in the 
summer, to the fiords for the catching of Angmagssats, the collecting of 
eggs, the fishing of salmon and the hunting of reindeer, besides the cap- 
turing of seals on the islands outside. 
The coast north of the western settlement. 
In the manuscript, lately quoted, reproduced by Втбвх Jé6Nsson, 
there is written, after the distance from the beginning of the western 
settlement to Lysefiord had been spoken of: 
“and from there [i.e. from the western settlement’s northerly point?] 
a six days row to Karlsbudir, and from there, a three days row to 
Biarney, a twelve days row round Biarney, Eisuness [from eisa—fire, 
embers], Ædaness [from ædr—eiderduck] to the north of it.” 
As we refer to the seventh chapter, we will only mention here that 
Karlsbudir possibly belonged to Greipar or the most southern capturing 
grounds where the “Vordrsetumenn” had their booths, to be used during 
the yearly summer expeditions to the north. Greipar lay to the north 
of the settlement proper, but certainly not far from its boundary, as it is 
mentioned in Bard Helgi’s poem as “the end of the settlement.” — Greipar 
has presumably been the coast south of Disko bay about 6814° п. lat. 
in the vicinity of Egedesminde, to which the period of six days row 
fairly suits. 
It is probable that Biarney is the Disko of our day, and that Ædanes 
and Æisunes lay on the peninsula Nugarssuk, where amongst other 
things, there is coal. If such be the case, we probably have the, other 
Nordrsetumenn’s capturing ground here, namely Kroksfiardarheidi 
(Kroksfiord heath). It could take three days to row from Karlsbudir 
