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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...
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    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...
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    that Gardar held in Greenland's Viking society. Runestone from Gardar Hvalsey Church is the best-preserved Grænlendingar building today. The simple,...
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  • 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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    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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    The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage in the Church of Hvalsey....
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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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    Eriksson’s Home in Vinland", Norse Greenland: Selected Papers from the Hvalsey Conference 2008 Journal of the North Atlantic, 2009, 114-125. Praeterea...
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  • (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...
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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...
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    The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved Norse ruin....
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    Greenlanders are from an Icelandic marriage in 1408 but were recorded later in Iceland, at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved of the Norse ruins....
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    written record of the Norse Greenlanders documents a marriage in 1408 at Hvalsey Church, whose ruins are the best-preserved of the Norse buildings of that...
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    Romance Notes (in Portuguese). 2 (Norse Greenland – Selected Papers from the Hvalsey Conference 2008): 3–4. doi:10.1353/rmc.2009.0035. JSTOR 43801787. S2CID 201769444...
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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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  • Glyndŵr. September 16 – Thorstein Olafssøn marries Sigrid Bjørnsdatter in Hvalsey Church, in the last recorded event of the Norse history of Greenland. December...
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    The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage in Hvalsey Church – today the most well-preserved of the Norse ruins....
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    2019 at the Wayback Machine, in Norse Greenland: Selected Papers of the Hvalsey Conference 2008, Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 2, 30–51...
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  • whole." The societies Diamond describes are: The Greenland Norse (cf. Hvalsey Church) (climate change, environmental damage, loss of trading partners...
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    island" or "round island" West Burra Scots/Norse west broch island Whalsay Hvalsey Norse whale island Yell Unknown Pre-Celtic? Unknown Norse: í Ála – "deep...
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    language most likely disappeared with the ethnic group that spoke it. Hvalsey Norse colonization of North America Narsaq stick Old Norse List of extinct...
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    reburied in a conservation effort. Includes modern reconstructions. Church of Hvalsey, a Norse church in Greenland. Additional remains of Norse-era settlements...
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  • at 17:00 and are followed by a dinner. Roman Catholicism in Greenland Hvalsey Church Krist Konge Kirke, Nuuk Greenland "katolsk.dk: English". www.katolsk...
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  •  Ottoman Empire  Byzantine Empire c.  14th century c.  14th century K'aissape–Hvalsey war Inuit under K'aissape Norsemen under Ungortoq 1303 1303 Conquest of...
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  • Ruins of the Hvalsey Church at Hvalsey, Greenland...
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  • 5-6 hour hike from Narsaruaq that leads to a high plateau with a lake Hvalsey Church, a ruin built by the vikings around 12th century Qaqortoq Museum...
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    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...
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  • Cathedral Oldest extant building of European origin in North America. Hvalsey Church Hvalsey  Greenland 1300 CE Church The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland...
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