CHAPTER 7
KINGIGTORSSUAQ
The short stay in Iceland only served to establish the sites that should primarily be addressed in Greenland to locate runic inscriptions and other relics of the period they were interested in, i.e. early eleventh century since they were deterred from the idea of finding traces of previous periods.
They had to wait several days before they could board an old Danish freighter that would take them to the port of Nuuk located at latitude 64 ° 10 'North. The city of Nuuk is the capital of the vast island which is under the sovereignty of Denmark.
During the next two weeks they traveled through the areas called Vesterbygden and Austerbygden where most of the inscriptions found on the island are. They copied almost all the inscriptions that were later deciphered by
