674 W. Thalbitzer 



The supposition has also been put forward that the small oblong whetstones 

 of red jasper used by the South Greenlanders and the Ammassahkers (p. 502) 

 were an imitation of similar stone implements used by the Norsemen. They have 

 often an eye in the one end and are thus meant to be carried, which is said to 

 have been the custom on the Færoes in olden days^). 



More recently 0. Solberg has dealt with this question. According to his 

 opinion the Eskimo in Greenland have got the first idea of using iron (the na- 

 tural iron of the country found in the basalt layers) from the Europeans Hving 

 there, possibly already during the Icelanders' period (cf. here pp. 487 and 489). 

 Further, he points out that the convex woman's knife (ulo) is characteristic 

 of Greenland and is a comparatively new invention (?) probably dating from 

 about the same time as they began to use the iron. It may now be asked, if 

 this Greenland convex type has been influenced by a similarly shaped imple- 

 ment of Iceland origin (unknown to us) and, further, the triangular stone-points 

 meant for insertion in the harpoon-heads may have been influenced as to the 

 shape by similar iron-points made in the foreign south^). It has as yet been 

 impossible to get any definite answer to this question. We only see the mys- 

 terious shapes but the old implements are silent witnesses of the bygone times in 

 which they were developed. 



To pp. ЗАО—ЗМ (cf. p. 26). 

 The earliest visits or the East Greenlanders to West Greenland. 

 — In the Danish edition (1888) p. 57 (footnote) G. Holm showed, that before 

 1883 no boat from Ammassahk had visited the west coast of Greenland. Accor- 

 ding to the information Holm received at Ammassalik the report cited from 

 Rosing (in Rink's Danish Greenland) of such visits proved to be erroneous. 

 From this region including Sermilik no boat had been on the west coast within 

 the memory of man. Samik was possibly born near Ammassalik but he И ved 

 further to the south at Umanak (62°50' lat.) from which he made trading jour- 

 neys to the west coast. On the other hand, a few persons from the Ammassahk 

 district had made trading journeys to the west coast. 



To p. 341 (and pp. 348—350, cf. pp. 26 and 183—185). 



The northernmost settlement Kelalualik mentioned by Inuk is evidently 

 identical with Kilalualik of an old list obtained by K. I. V. Steenstrup in 1876 

 in South Greenland from a missionary named Lund. The latter had noted it 

 down in 1851 from information given him by some visitors, who had come over 

 to the west coast in that year. Though probably not quite accurate it deserves 

 to be given here. Kelalualik means "the place of the white whales" (where they 

 are found and captured). In Graah's list from 1829 this name is not found, 

 nor Angmagsalik or Sermilik. On the whole hardly any names are the same 

 on both lists; this is probably in part due to the fact that the natives have mov- 

 ed to some other settlements in the meantime, but also that one hst is not exact; 

 and one and the same place has undoubtedly in some] cases been designated 

 by tAvo difierent names reckoned from Graah's to Lund's time. 



1) Finn Magnusen in Grønl. histor. Mindesmærker III p. 835. Cf. Medd. om Grøn- 

 land VI (1883), p. 143. 



2) Solberg (1907) pp. 19 and 54. 



äj Solberg's cautious hints about this influence which may be traced in the shape 

 of the implements are found e. g. 1. c. pp. 54, 68 — 69, 79 — 81. 



