. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. By courtesy of M. Clemmensen Viexv of the Plain at Igaliko. MG^ XL VIIOn the left are houses of the modern Greenlanders and the filace where the Thing IS believed to ha-ve been held. To the right the ruins of Gardar Ca-thedral and the bisho/is house. In the background Igdlerjigsalik Mountain THE NORSEMEN TO AMERICA 27 number of ruins now left, and from the known distributionof the churches, of which there were twelve in the EasternSettlement and only four in the Western Settlement. Thanks to the work of Captain Gustav Holm of the Dan-ish Navy and Capta
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. By courtesy of M. Clemmensen Viexv of the Plain at Igaliko. MG^ XL VIIOn the left are houses of the modern Greenlanders and the filace where the Thing IS believed to ha-ve been held. To the right the ruins of Gardar Ca-thedral and the bisho/is house. In the background Igdlerjigsalik Mountain THE NORSEMEN TO AMERICA 27 number of ruins now left, and from the known distributionof the churches, of which there were twelve in the EasternSettlement and only four in the Western Settlement. Thanks to the work of Captain Gustav Holm of the Dan-ish Navy and Captain Daniel Bruun of the Danish Army,. By courtesy of M. Clemmensen Map of the Plain at Igaliko. MC, XLVIIAfter survey by Cafit. G. Holm and Cafit. D. Bruun,shcetving ruins of Gardar Cathedral and the bishops house carried out under the auspices of the Danish GreenlandCommittee,* the remains of the Norse colony in Greenlandhave to a considerable extent been investigated, and muchlight has been thrown on the life and history of the early set- * Kommissionen for Ledelsen af Geologiske og Geogrqfiske Undersogelser iGronland, MG, VI, XVI, XLVII. 28 THE VOYAGES OF tiers, as well as on the old topography. Finnur Jonsson* has,in particular, made a study of this latter question, and hassucceeded in identifying many of the churches, fiords, Norsemen setded chiefly at the inner part of a fiord,on the low lands, where there were good pastures and w^oods,and near a river or brook, rich in salmon. Each farm con-sisted of a number of buildings, sometimes as many as
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