Fróðskaparrit - 01.01.1953, Page 52

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N ólsoyarfundurin
Hyggja vit aftur at 2. og 3. mynd, so sæst, at hellan
gongur við lítlum halli oman móti sjónum og norðureftir.
Hetta sæst eisini á landslagnum millum Malhellurnar. —
Vit fara tí at halda, at her hevur einaferð verið ein lægd og
kanska seinri eitt innvik, har hetta alt er rikið upp. Reka-
træið, tarin og skeldýraleivdirnar miðja eisini móti hesum.
SUMMARY
I.
In autumn 1926 drift wood and some animal bones were
found in the soil on the island of Nólsoy. Deíailed investiga-
tions were not carried out at the time, but according to men
working on the site, Brógger2 thought that they had possibly
come across the remains of a sacrifice from the early period
of the colonisation of the Faroes.
II.
Investigations were undertaken at the spot in the summer
of 1953; two sections were cut some two metres east of
where the bones and drift wood were previously found:
E—V (Fig. 1 and 2) and N—S (Fig. 3) and the strata
examined. Taking into account the subsidence known to
have taken place and comparing with /essere4 and Brógger2
we conclude that the terminus ad quem should not be fixed
earlier than the middle of the (Norse) Middle Ages and
that the site appears to have been exposed until the 19th
century. It may be thought that these bones had been washed
up or thrown together where they were found; remains of
seaweed and shell-fragments indicate this supposition.