Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.2002, Síða 23

EIN DANI OG BYRJANIN TIL FØROYSKA FORNFRØÐI
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Fig. 11. Bruun’s and Klein’splan from 1898 of 'Fransatoftir’ near Hvítanes. Drawing by Johannes Klein.
National Museum of Denmark, Topographical-Antiquarian Archives.
same place, which we, however, could not
observe’ (Bruun 1929, 93-94; author’s trans-
lation from Danish) (Figs. 10-11).
It was the same site as visited by Bruun and
Klein in 1898 which Jacobsen and Hatt
were heading for that day in October 1932.
Hatt stated in his notebook:
‘There are two house ruins here. We exca-
vated the biggest of them. Daniel Bruun’s
excavation cannot have been particularly
thorough. We uncovered a paved floor with a
centrally placed fire-place where an ash-lay-
er was located and by this big stones had
been pul on edge which confined Ihe fire-
place to the one side...[4]. On the roof some
flat stones must have been lying, which have
collapsed down over the centrally placed
hearth. Preserved wood (....), some wooden
rivets and numerous rusty iron rivets were
found in the ruin (....) Presumably this build-
ing and a smaller attached structure have
served as a refuge for the farmer at Sund
when pirates went ashore. Between the two
structures runs a small stream’ (author’s
translation from Danish).
In the evening after a hard day’s work at the
site the Hatt couple visited the private home
of Liitzen where they also met Matras
again.