INTRODUCTION. 
XXI 
At this time the Greenland colonics seem to 
have been in a very flourishing state. They be¬ 
came a bishoprick in the year 1121, when, ac¬ 
cording to Torfams, Arnold, the first regularly 
installed Bishop, was delegated to the office by 
Sigurd, king of Norway. 
The colonics are stated by Crantz, and others, 
to have extended from Cape Farewell, the 
southern point of Greenland, five or six degrees 
of latitude towards the north, both on the east 
and west side of the country. About sixteen 
churches are mentioned as having been built on 
these coasts. Cranfz informs us, that there were 
nineteen bays or inlets, that were inhabited on 
the east side. On these were planted a hundred 
and ninety farms or hamlets, constituting twelve 
parishes, with the Bishop’s see, and two convents. 
And, on the west side, it appears that there were 
nine cultivated inlets, on which ninety, or, as 
some say, one hundred arid ten hamlets were 
built, that constituted four parishes. 
This information, which I have taken principal¬ 
ly from Crantz’s interesting and excellent “ His-' 
