DESCRIPTION OF GREENLAXD. 189 



The Danish Chronicle says, that the successors of Eric 

 the E,ccl having multiplied in Greenland, went higher up 

 the country, and found amongst the mountains, fertile lands, 

 meadows, and rivers. They divided Greenland into east 

 and west, according to the division that Eric had made by 

 the two buildings of Ostrebug and Vestrcbug. They built 

 in the east a town, which they called Garde ; to which, says 

 the Chronicle, the Norwegians every year brought different 

 sorts of merchandise, which they sold to the inhabitants of 

 the country in order to attract them thither. Their children 

 went still further and built another town, which they called 

 Albe ; and as religious zeal was increasing among Chris- 

 tians, they erected a monastery on the sea coast in honour of 

 St. Thomas. The town of Garde was the residence of their 

 bishops, and the church of St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors, 

 built in this town, was the dome or cathedral of Greenland. 

 You will find the list of these bishops and their order of suc- 

 cession in the "Specimen Islandicum" of Angrimus Jonas, 

 where he speaks of Greenland, from the time of their esta- 

 blishment to the year 1389. Pontanus, in his history of 

 Denmark, remarks, that in the same year, 1389, a bishop of 

 Garde, named Henry, gave assistance to the states of Den- 

 mark which were in Nieuborg, in Funen, on the shores of 

 the Great Belt. Whilst Greenland elevated the kings of 

 Norway in temporal things, the bishops of Drontheim, in 

 Norway, improved them in spiritual things, and the bishops 

 of Greenland went over frequently to Norway to consult the 

 bishops of Drontheim on the difficulties which they expe- 

 rienced. Greenland practised the laws of Iceland under 

 the viceroys whom the kings of Norway established there. 

 You can learn the names of these viceroys, and the exploits 

 of the like Icelandic heroes on the plains of Greenland, in 

 the " Specimen Islandicum", where the good Angrimus, 

 who was a zealous compatriot, has not forgotten them ; and 

 to his work I refer you, because, as these gallant deeds have 



