2 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
thoroughly to appreciate the courage of these 
pioneers of colonisation. An unusually good re- 
presentation of a Viking’s ship, which shows the 
rigging more clearly than on the ships depicted on 
the Bayeux Tapestry, may be seen on a large 
incised slab of limestone in the Museum at the 
famous Hanseatic town of Visby in the Island of 
Gothland. 
Many farms were established by the colonists 
and stocked with cattle brought from Iceland. 
Cattle, especially sheep, are still kept in the more 
southern parts of Greenland, but in the northern 
districts, where sledges are used in the winter and 
dogs are essential, it is practically impossible, apart 
from the difficulty of providing food, to keep 
domestic animals. A few Danish residents keep 
goats for the luxury of having fresh milk, but 
these are a cause of anxiety because of the difficulty 
of protecting them against the attacks of hungry 
dogs. South of Holsteinsborg (the southernmost 
place where sledge-dogs are kept—see Map 4, 
H) goats and chickens are common. The dogs 
which are kept in South Greenland for the sake 
of their skins are said to be very tame as compared 
with the sledge-dogs of the north. 
The discovery of a Runic stone a little to the 
north of lat. 72° N.1 affords evidence of the long 
1 A fuller account of this and other facts connected with the 
history of Greenland is given by Sir Clements Markham in The 
Lands of Silence, Cambridge, 1921. For further details the 
reader is referred to papers in the Meddelelser om Gréuland and 
to the recently-published book (in Danish) entitled Grfuland, 
Copenhagen, 1921. 
