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FIORDS OF SOUTH GREENLAND. G3 lished themselves at the interior ends of the fiords and bays, where grass was to he found. The ruins of their habitations, constructed of very large blocks of stone, are still to be seen at all the more fertile places. Judging from the number of ruins and the accounts in the Icelandic Sagas, their number must at one time have reached about 10,000. But the Scandi- navians of Greenland have perished; cattle no longer graze in the valleys as then; and some heaps of stones are all that remain to show the enterprise of those early western pioneers. The Icelandic Sagas contain descriptions of most of the fiords of South Greenland, and of the chief settlers in them. Perhaps the most notable in this respect is the Fiord of Iga- liklco. This fiord ends in two forks or arms;—in the northern stand the ruins of Brattelid, the first town in Greenland, built by the first settler, Eric the Bed, in 986; in the other was built the town of Garde, the residence of the Bishop of Greenland. These two towns vied with each other in the claim for prece- dence—Brattelid claiming it on the ground of its being the first erected, and the residence of Eric the Bed and his descendants; whilst Garde asserted its superior worthiness in being the residence of the bishop. After much wordy quarrel- ing and sundry duels, Garde appears to have triumphed, and was henceforth considered as the capital of Greenland. But Garde now shares the ruin and desolation of Brattelid, with nothing else to recommend it to our further notice. Not so however with its rival Brattelid. In the time of Erie the Bed, Anno Domini 1000, there sailed from the fiord of Igalikko and from the town of Brattelid an expedition of discovery. These enterprising Scandinavians were not contented with having discovered the vast territory of Greenland; this appears to have only stimulated their thirst for further dis- coveries, and it may perhaps also be that after two or three years’ residence in Greenland, they found it was not the El
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The North Atlantic telegraph via the Færöe Isles, Iceland, and Greenland

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1861
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