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Hvalsey Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a
Catholic church in the
abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey...
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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...
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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...
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Icelandic saga narrative", in
Norse Greenland:
Selected Papers of the
Hvalsey Conference 2008,
Journal of the
North Atlantic Special Volume 2, 30–51...
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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...
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church in Lithuania.
Originally built in the 14th century.
Hvalsey Church,
located in
Hvalsey (modern-day Qaqortoq), Greenland,
Kingdom of Denmark, is the...
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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...
