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    Garðar was the seat of the bishop in the Norse settlements in Greenland. It is a Latin Catholic titular see, and was the first Catholic diocese established...
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  • chiefly by Icelanders Garðar Árnason (born 1938), Icelandic footballer Garðar Thór Cortes (born 1974), Icelandic tenor Gardar Eide Einarsson (born 1976)...
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    Norse settlements in Greenland were established after 986 by settlers coming from Iceland. The settlers, known as Grænlendingar ('Greenlanders' in Icelandic)...
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    Garðar Cathedral (Danish: Garðar Domkirke), known formally as the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, was a Roman Catholic cathedral church located in Garðar...
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  • of bishops of Greenland: Before and during the Reformation: Garðar, Greenland#Diocese of Garðar After the Reformation: Bishop of Greenland#List of Bishops...
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    Igaliku (redirect from Gardar (Greenland))
    ruins of Garðar and the farms surrounding the town were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2017 as part of the Kujataa Greenland: Norse and...
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    used hyperspectral imaging over Garðar and the USGS interpreted the data to search for mineral resources. Greenland in April 2020 accepted a $12.1 million...
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    sent missionaries back to Greenland. These swiftly established sixteen parishes, some monasteries, and a bishopric at Garðar. Rediscovering these colonists...
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    Historically (before the Reformation) the Diocese of Greenland was known as the Diocese of Garðar. This ancient diocese fell into disuse in the 14th century...
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    diocese at Garðar (now Igaliku). It was subject to the Norwegian archdiocese of Nidaros (now Trondheim); at least five churches in Norse Greenland are known...
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    sent missionaries back to Greenland. These swiftly established sixteen parishes, some monasteries, and a bishopric at Garðar. Rediscovering these colonists...
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    Historically (before the Reformation) the Diocese of Greenland was known as the Diocese of Garðar. This ancient diocese fell into disuse in the 14th century...
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    The bishops of Bergen (bishop about 1068), Faroe Diocese (1047), Garðar, Greenland (1126), Hamar (1151), Hólar, Iceland (1105), Orkney (1070; suffragan...
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  • Historically (before the Reformation) the Bishop of Greenland was known as the Bishop of Garðar. After the reformation, the diocese fell into disuse...
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    a list of cities and towns in Greenland as of 2021. The term 'city' is used loosely for any populated area in Greenland, given that the most populated...
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  • 11541154 Skálholt Southern Iceland Skálholt Cathedral 10561056 Hólar Northern Iceland Hólar Cathedral 11061106 Garðar Greenland Gardar Cathedral 11241124...
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    Islands Bishop of Orkney Bishop of Reykjavík (Catholic) Garðar, Greenland (list of Bishops of Garðar) Landakotskirkja (Christ the King Cathedral, Reykjavík...
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    Svínfellingar; Vatnsfirðingar) Greenland Norsemen (mainly descendants from Old Icelanders that settled in Norse Greenland) Vikings (in the Western Europe)...
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  • Svavarsson (Old Norse: [ˈɡɑrðˌɑrː ˈswɑwɑrsˌson]; Modern Icelandic: Garðar Svavarsson [ˈkarðˌaːr ˈsvaːvar̥sˌsɔːn]; Modern Swedish: Gardar Svavarsson) was a Swede...
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  • Homo gardarensis (redirect from Gardar Man)
    the name mistakenly given to partial remains found in a burial at Garðar, Greenland in a 12th-century Norse settlement. Original statements compared the...
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  • Bergen Bishop of Stavanger Bishop of Oslo Bishop of Hamar Bishop of Garðar (Greenland) Bishop of Skálholt (Iceland) Bishop of Hólar (Iceland) Bishop of...
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    chief clerks, to be Greenland's first bishop. The first diocese, titled Gardar, was officially established in 1124, and Greenland had the first known...
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    see in 1384. Pope Boniface IX translated him to the Bishopric of Garðar, Greenland. 1383 1391 Robert Sinclair The Avignon bishop, in contrast to John...
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  • Sweden and Norway to travel to Greenland and to assess the state of affairs there*. The Bishop of Gardar in Greenland as well as the Bishops of Oslo,...
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    Erik the Red (category Norse settlements in Greenland)
    Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland. Erik most likely earned the epithet "the Red" due to the color of his...
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    Hvalsey Church (category Roman Catholic churches in Greenland)
    16 September 1408. The wedding was mentioned in letters from a priest at Garðar and by several Icelanders, and is the last written record of the Greenlandic...
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    at Brattahlíð in Eiríksfjörður and Garðar in Einarsfjörður; both are located in the Eastern Settlement of Greenland. These two sites were located through...
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    a Norwegian cleric who was sent to Greenland in 1341 to serve as superintendent of the bishop's seat at Gardar in the Eastern Settlement. After the...
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    400 farms have been identified by archaeologists. Norse Greenland had a bishopric (at Garðar) and exported walrus ivory, furs, rope, sheep, whale and...
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    Dominican Republic, is an older church building, and the Garðar Cathedral Ruins in Greenland were built and served as a cathedral much earlier, the Cathedral...
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