Vatnahverfi was a district in the Norse Greenlanders’ Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð) and is generally regarded by archaeologists and historians as having the best pastoral land in the colony. The Norse settled Vatnahverfi in the late 10th century and farmed there for nearly 500 years before mysteriously disappearing from the district and the entirety of Greenland, likely at some point in the latter 15th century. Its name is roughly translated as “Lake District."
Pastoral land in Vatnahverfi. Modern farms in the district are almost invariably situated on former Norse sites.
Vatnahverfi was a district in the Norse Greenlanders’ Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð) and is generally regarded by archaeologists and historians as having...
including Brattahlíð, Dyrnæs, Garðar, Hvalsey and Herjolfsnes. The Vatnahverfi district to the southeast of Einarsfjord had some of the best pastoral...
Asgeirsdottir, a quiet, solitary, melancholic woman on their homestead in the Vatnahverfi district. Though the novel also follows the lives of many other Greenlanders...
have struggled with soil erosion and deforestation. A Norse farm in the Vatnahverfi district, excavated in the 1950s, had been buried in layers of drifting...
Settlement. From 1940, Leif Verbaek carried out extensive excavations at Vatnahverfi in the Eastern Settlement. As part of the Nordic Archaeological Expedition...
island, see List of islands in Isle Royale National Park Caribo Island, Vatnahverfi, Greenland; an island All pages with titles beginning with Caribou Island...
Paa area was the southern point of a district known to the Norse as Vatnahverfi during the 10th–15th centuries. There are seven known sites from the...
about 1000 AD was found in Greenland. A stone version was also found at Vatnahverfi, Greenland. By looking at the place where the shadow from the rod falls...
Norse manor house, with the remains of over 40 structures. Tasikuluulik (Vatnahverfi): Contains Greenland's longest rural road, which connects multiple Inuit...
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