. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. By courtesy of Capt. D. Bruiin Eiicsvog on Oxno^ Hvmmnsjiord^ IcelandHere Eric the Red ckvelt while banished, before going to Greenland. By courtesy of M. Clemmensen Vlexv from Brattahlid over Erics fiordIn the background Igdlerjigsalik Mountain THE NORSEMEN TO AMERICA 25 mountains, and promontories. On the west coast, belowlat. 73°, this strip of land has an average width of aboutfifty miles, and extends with little interruption from MelvilleBay to Cape Farewell, a distance of more than one thousandmiles. Everywhere this mountainous belt is penetrated
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. By courtesy of Capt. D. Bruiin Eiicsvog on Oxno^ Hvmmnsjiord^ IcelandHere Eric the Red ckvelt while banished, before going to Greenland. By courtesy of M. Clemmensen Vlexv from Brattahlid over Erics fiordIn the background Igdlerjigsalik Mountain THE NORSEMEN TO AMERICA 25 mountains, and promontories. On the west coast, belowlat. 73°, this strip of land has an average width of aboutfifty miles, and extends with little interruption from MelvilleBay to Cape Farewell, a distance of more than one thousandmiles. Everywhere this mountainous belt is penetrated bydeep fiords, which reach to the inland ice and terminateabruptly with great glaciers. It was on this strip of land that the Icelanders settled atthe end of the tenth century. Though barren on the outershores and islands and on the hills, it is covered at the innerpart of the fiords on the low level by a rich growth of grasstogether with stunted birch trees and various bushes, par-ticularly willows. On the north side of the valleys crowber-ries {empetrum nigrum) may be found. In Ari Erodes Islen-dingaBookwQ find a brief but important note on Greenland,from which, as we
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