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Approximately 500 groups of ruins of Norse farms are found in the area, with 16 church ruins, including Brattahlíð, Dyrnæs, Garðar, Hvalsey and Herjolfsnes. [2] The Vatnahverfi district to the southeast of Einarsfjord had some of the best pastoral land in the colony, and boasted 10% of all the known farm sites in the Eastern Settlement.
Hvalsey ("Whale Island"; Greenlandic Qaqortukulooq) is located near Qaqortoq, Greenland and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins in the area known as the Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð). In 2017, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and part of the Kujataa Greenland site.
Hvalsey Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey (modern-day Qaqortoq). The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland , the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408.
L'Anse aux Meadows, a Norse settlement in Newfoundland. Foundations of eight structures, visible today only as mounds because they were reburied in a conservation effort. Includes modern reconstructions. [1] Church of Hvalsey, a Norse church in Greenland. Additional remains of Norse-era settlements. [2]
On their way southwards he investigated the area of Tunulliarfik Fjord and Hvalsey, which contained the remains of earlier Norse settlements. The next year he passed Cape Farewell and worked a little way up the unmapped east coast to an island which he called Nenese . Walløe constantly struggled with drift-ice and bad weather while navigating ...
Researchers believe they have reliable evidence that shows Vikings beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by about 500 years.
The Western Settlement (Old Norse: Vestribygð [ˈwestreˌbyɣð]) was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around 985 in medieval Greenland. Despite its name, the Western Settlement was more north than west of its companion Eastern Settlement and was located at the bottom of the deep Nuup Kangerlua fjord ...
The settlement led to a new written police policy for "interaction with individuals residing in homeless encampments," aimed at better treatment of people experiencing homelessness.