Qassiarsuk is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality, in southern Greenland. Its population was 39 in 2020.[2] Qassiarsuk is part of the Kujataa World Heritage Site, due to its historical importance as the homestead of Erik the Red and its unique testimony to Greenlandic farming.[3]
^"Kujalleq Municipality" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
^"Population by Localities". Statistical Greenland.
^Orri Vésteinsson (January 2016). "Nomination to UNESCO's World Heritage List -- Kujataa: a subarctic farming landscape in Greenland". The Greenlandic Ministry of Education,Culture, Research and Church. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
Qassiarsuk is a settlement in the Kujalleq municipality, in southern Greenland. Its population was 39 in 2020. Qassiarsuk is part of the Kujataa World...
of Brattahlíð, near present-day Narsarsuaq, in what is known today as Qassiarsuk. Erik held the title of paramount chieftain of Greenland and became both...
the opposite bank of Tunulliarfik Fjord, where the modern settlement of Qassiarsuk is situated. In 1941 the United States built an air base at Narsarsuaq...
Grænlendingar (Icelandic for "Greenlanders") were Norsemen that came from Iceland to settle on the Island of Greenland in the years following 986. The...
heritage site includes 5 components, all located within this region: Qassiarsuk: Contains Brattahlíð, the estate of Erik the Red and (possibly) the first...
settlements near the shores of the long Tunulliarfik Fjord. Narsarsuaq and Qassiarsuk are located on the opposite sides of the fjord near its head. Further...
artifacts and ruins. Erik the Red's Brattahlid is located in present-day Qassiarsuk, and the Gardar bishop seat is in present-day Igaliku. Present day Narsaq...
Radiocarbon dating of remains at the first settlement at Brattahlid (now Qassiarsuk) have approximately confirmed this timeline, yielding a date of about...
older sister is Augusta Salling (* 1954). Lund attended the Folkeskole in Qassiarsuk from 1966. He then spent a year in Denmark and then attended secondary...
December 2008. The municipality consisted of Narsaq, and the settlements Qassiarsuk, Igaliku, and Narsarsuaq. Its administrative center was the town of Narsaq...
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