. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. farther north at Lysufiord, the present Ameralikfiord, com-prising the district of Godthaab. The fiord next Ericsfiord in the Eastern Settlement wasEinarsfiord, now Igalikofiord. These fiords were separatedat their head by a low and narrow strip of land, the presentIgaliko Isthmus. It was here, at GarSar, that the Althingof Greenland met, and here was also found the bishopsseat, established at the beginning of the twelfth were as many as sixteen churches in Greenland, foralmost every fiord had its own church on account of thelong distance
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. farther north at Lysufiord, the present Ameralikfiord, com-prising the district of Godthaab. The fiord next Ericsfiord in the Eastern Settlement wasEinarsfiord, now Igalikofiord. These fiords were separatedat their head by a low and narrow strip of land, the presentIgaliko Isthmus. It was here, at GarSar, that the Althingof Greenland met, and here was also found the bishopsseat, established at the beginning of the twelfth were as many as sixteen churches in Greenland, foralmost every fiord had its own church on account of thelong distances and difficult travelling between the fiords. The headland referred to in the sagas and in the old sail-ing directions as Hvarf, that is, the point about which theships rounded, is believed to be Cape Desolation (Nunar-suit), the most southwestern point of Greenland. The total population in the two settlements hardly everexceeded two thousand, and of these by far the greater partlived in the Eastern Settlement. This is manifest from the. By courtesy of M. Ctemmensen Brattahlid The ruins are found where the Greenlander stands in the middle of thepicture, but are hidden from vie^v by the tall grass
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