26 Gustav Норм. 
ICELANDIC ANNALS. — In addition to the sagas of the discovery 
and exploration of Vinland and Markland, these countries find mention 
in the chronological lists of notable events, in and out of Iceland; which 
are known as the Icelandic Annals!) Among the recorded events of 
the year 1121 it is stated that: 
“Eric, Bishop of Greenland, went in search of Vinland”’. 
And in other Annals we find, against the year 1347, the following 
record: 
“There came also a ship from Greenland, less in size than small 
Icelandic trading vessels. It came into the outer Stream-firth. It was 
without an anchor. There were seventeen men on board, and they had 
sailed to Markland, but had afterwards been driven hither by storms at sea”. 
I will remark in consequence of these last records that it is not 
impossible that the Northmen in Greenland had frequent communi- 
cation with southern Labrador, possibly to obtain timber for their ships 
and houses; and perhaps, as Hovgaard and Gathorne-Hardy have 
mentioned, to settle when all communication with the mother country 
stopped, and they were displaced by the Greenland Eskimos. The 
present Eskimos in Labrador say?) that some old ruins, the position 
of which, and the manner of building being different to Eskimos’ (e. ©. 
never built with а long passage-way) have been inhabited by “Tunit”’. 
These people had crossed the sea, tradition says, from Greenland; they 
were few in number “but in stature and physique superior to the Eskimo, 
whose central habitat appears to have been the archipelago about Nain 
and Port Manners”. The Eskimos were on hostile terms with the Tunit, 
who were gradually driven into Baffin Land. Gosling writes in his book 
on Labrador?) that the ruins possibly are connected with the ancient 
Northmen’s visits to America. 
It is not improbable that this is the case, but I will, however, refer 
to the ancient Greenland legend where a fabulous people of a similar 
name to Tunit is mentioned?*). 
1) Reeves op. cit. p. 79—83. 
2} Gathorne-Hardy in “The Geographical Journal”, March, 1922. 
3) New York. 1911. 
4) A man in Angmagsalik told me in 1884, that the fabulous inlanders, whom 
he called “Tunermiut”, “came down to the sea at Tasiusak, in the spring to fish. 
They were tall people, just as long as an umiak, some were, however, small; many 
had long beards which often was fair.“ — According to Kleinschmidt’s Greenland 
dictionary, р. 380, “tunua’” means East Greenland (from “tunuk’’-back), and “tunu- 
armio” means a Greenlander from the East coast. Rink writes in “Medd. om Gronl.” 
XI. p.157 that the Greenland word “tuneq” which mean “fabulous inlander” is 
also to be found amongst Labrador Eskimos and Central Eskimos where it means 
“a strange nation formerly existing”. 
