[34] See Memoires des Antiquaires du Nord, p. 383.
[35] The location of Gardar is now uncertain. At one time it was supposed to have been situated on the eastern coast; but since it became so clear that the east coast was never inhabited, that view has been abandoned, though the name appears in old maps.
[36] See Crantz's Greenland, vol. i, p. 252.
[37] These inscriptions are all in fair runic letters, about which there can be no mistake, and are totally unlike the imaginary runes, among which we may finally feel obliged to class those of the Dighton rock.
[38] See Egede's Greenland, p. xxv; Crantz's Greenland, vol. i, pp. 247-8; Purchas, His Pilgrimes, vol. iii, p. 518; Antiquitates Americanæ, p. 300.
[39] Antiquitates Americanæ, p. xxxix.
[40] For the account of the manuscripts upon which our knowledge of Greenland is founded, see Antiquitates Americanæ, p. 255.
[41] In that year parties are known to have contracted marriage at Gardar, from whom Finn Magnussen and other distinguished men owe their descent.
[42] Egede's Greenland, p. xlvii.
[43] Ibid., xlviii.