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ICELANDIC SETTLEMENT 103 J6nsson's maps, 16 which embody the results of the research of the best experts and scholars with the aid of relics on the ground and surviving records. It is apparent that from the first to last the heart of Greenland was about the low, fairly FIG. 15 Map of the early Norse Western and Eastern Settlements of Greenland. Scale 1:6,400,000. (The inset below, 1:70,000,000, shows the relation of Norway, Iceland, and Greenland.) fertile, favorable tract near the heads of the two fiords named for Eric and his friend, Einar, and not far from Eric's Green- land home. The Western Settlement was a comparatively small offshoot, with four churches only, yet it contrived to main- tain existence for between three and four centuries, being at last 15 Finnur J6nsson: Gronlands gamle Topografi efter Kilderne: Osterbygden og Vesterbygden, Meddelelser om Grdnland,Vo. 20 (text, pp. 267-329), Pis. 2 and 3, 1899-