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- Hvalsey Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage in the Church of Hvalsey....
- written record of the Norse Greenlanders do****ents a marriage in 1408 at Hvalsey Church, whose ruins are the best-preserved of the Norse buildings of that...
- 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....