Note 531 — Chapter II
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E. B. Tylor on “Old Scandinavian Civilization among the modern Esquimaux,” in the Journal of the Anthropological Inst. (1884), xiii. 348, shows that the Greenlanders still preserve some of the Norse customs, arising in part, as he thinks, from some of the lost Scandinavian survivors being merged in the savage tribes. Their recollection of the Northmen seems evident from the traditions collected among them by Dr. Rink in his Eskimoiske Eventyr og Sagn (Copenhagen, 1866); and their dress, and some of their utensils and games, as it existed in the days of Egede and Crantz, seem to indicate the survival of customs.