Nólsoyarfundurin

Abstract

I. In autumn 1926 drift wood and some animal bones were found in the soil on the island of Nólsoy. Detailed investigations were not carried out at the time, but according to men working on the site, Brogger2 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 Jessen^ and Brogger2 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.