Hvalsey Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey (now 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.[1]
HvalseyChurch (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey...
Þjóðhildarstaðir. Beside Einar's Firth lies Hvalsey Fjord. There is a church there called Hvalsey Fjord Church. It serves the entire fjord and all of Kambstad...
society. Runestone from Gardar HvalseyChurch is the best-preserved Grænlendingar building today. The simple, rectangular church interior was built around...
Nicholas Church, Vilnius, Lithuania, is the oldest surviving church in Lithuania. Originally built in the 14th century. HvalseyChurch, located in Hvalsey (modern-day...
written record of the Norse Greenlanders documents a marriage in 1408 at HvalseyChurch, whose ruins are the best-preserved of the Norse buildings of that period...
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...
in observance, is still predominantly Christian culturally. The Lutheran church claims some 84% of the total population. While early Icelandic Christianity...
Greenlanders are from an Icelandic marriage in 1408 but were recorded later in Iceland, at HvalseyChurch, which is now the best-preserved of the Norse ruins....
on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic church, Volume 7. Universal Knowledge Foundation. p. 615. Höffe, Otfried (2007)...
Glyndŵr. September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in HvalseyChurch, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland. December...
whether witches had the capability to control the weather. The Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages argued that witches could not control the weather...
5-6 hour hike from Narsaruaq that leads to a high plateau with a lake HvalseyChurch, a ruin built by the vikings around 12th century Qaqortoq Museum - main...
in a conservation effort. Includes modern reconstructions. Church of Hvalsey, a Norse church in Greenland. Additional remains of Norse-era settlements...
of Norse farms are found in the area, with 16 church ruins, including Brattahlíð, Dyrnæs, Garðar, Hvalsey and Herjolfsnes. The Vatnahverfi district to...
(Archaeological Site)". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Larson, Laurence M. "The Church in North America (Greenland) in the Middle Ages", The Catholic Historical...
The Catholic Church in Greenland is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. There are very few Catholics...
(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...
rural road, which connects multiple Inuit sheep farms. Qaqortukulooq (Hvalsey): Contains 11 Norse and 2 Thule sites, including the best preserved Norse...
Eriksson’s Home in Vinland", Norse Greenland: Selected Papers from the Hvalsey Conference 2008 Journal of the North Atlantic, 2009, 114-125. Praeterea...
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...
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...
Greenlandic population are members of her congregation. The Church of Denmark is the established church through the Constitution of Denmark. The Roman Catholic...
site of an older, conversion-era church. It had a rectangular foundation similar to that of the churches at Hvalsey and Brattahlid further north in a...
thrown into the sea to drown, or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures, giving rise to the traditional (but unattested) prayer—A furore...
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