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SUPPOSED BIRTHPLACE (IF LEU'' ER1KS0N 



land before he finally settled in Greenland. The supposed ruins 

 of his houses on Oxney and Sudrey can still be seen also,* but 

 I do not know that any ruins have been identified at Drangar. 

 The ruins of these dwellings, when undisturbed, are low, grass- 

 grown ridges and hollows often difficult to detect, except when 

 stones protrude through the turf. A dwelling usually consisted 





VERTICAL SECTION OF AN' APARTMENT 



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of three apartments : a hall or principal room, in which there 

 was always a fireplace; a sitting room for the women, and a 

 storeroom or pantry. t These apartments were like small houses, 



* " Finding of Wineland the Good," by A. M. Reeves, p. 165. 



f" For tidsm inder og Nutidshjem paa Island" of Daniel Brunn. Copenhagen, Ernst 

 Bojesen, p. 161. 



