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...
Hvalsey ("Whale Island"; Greenlandic Qaqortukulooq) is located near Qaqortoq, Greenland and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins...
The last written record from the Eastern Settlement is of a wedding in Hvalsey in 1408, placing it about 50–100 years later than the end of the more northerly...
that Gardar held in Greenland's Viking society. Runestone from Gardar Hvalsey Church is the best-preserved Grænlendingar building today. The simple,...
Kolgrim, also spelled Kollgrim or Kolgrimr (d. 1407 in Hvalsey, Greenland), was an alleged Norse sorcerer who was burned in Greenland for sorcery and...
Greenlanders records a marriage that took place in 1408 in the church of Hvalsey, now the best-preserved Nordic ruins in Greenland. The married couple then...
Icelandic saga narrative", in Norse Greenland: Selected Papers of the Hvalsey Conference 2008, Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 2, 30–51...
church in Lithuania. Originally built in the 14th century. Hvalsey Church, located in Hvalsey (modern-day Qaqortoq), Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark, is the...
(Þorkell Farserkur) was a shipmate and relative of Erik the Red. He settled Hvalsey, Greenland, where he started a farmstead. According to the medieval Icelandic...
written record of the Norse Greenlanders documents a marriage in 1408 at Hvalsey Church, whose ruins are the best-preserved of the Norse buildings of that...
Whalsay (Old Norse: Hvalsey or Hvals-øy, meaning 'Whale Island') is the sixth largest of the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland. Whalsay, also...
begin with the arrival of the Norse in the late 10th century. The ruins of Hvalsey – the most prominent Norse ruins in Greenland – are located 19 kilometers...
Eriksson’s Home in Vinland", Norse Greenland: Selected Papers from the Hvalsey Conference 2008 Journal of the North Atlantic, 2009, 114-125. Praeterea...
Greenlanders are from an Icelandic marriage in 1408 but were recorded later in Iceland, at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved of the Norse ruins....
reburied in a conservation effort. Includes modern reconstructions. Church of Hvalsey, a Norse church in Greenland. Additional remains of Norse-era settlements...
Glyndŵr. September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland. December...
island" or "round island" West Burra Scots/Norse west broch island Whalsay Hvalsey Norse whale island Yell Unknown Pre-Celtic? Unknown Norse: í Ála – "deep...
2019 at the Wayback Machine, in Norse Greenland: Selected Papers of the Hvalsey Conference 2008, Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 2, 30–51...
event to occur in the Norse settlements of Greenland was a wedding in Hvalsey in the Eastern Settlement in 1408. 1410: The Battle of Grunwald is the...
language most likely disappeared with the ethnic group that spoke it. Hvalsey Norse colonization of North America Narsaq stick Old Norse List of extinct...
5-6 hour hike from Narsaruaq that leads to a high plateau with a lake Hvalsey Church, a ruin built by the vikings around 12th century Qaqortoq Museum...
Cathedral Oldest extant building of European origin in North America. Hvalsey Church Hvalsey Greenland 1300 CE Church The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland...
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