Garðar, Greenland
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Garðar was the seat of the bishop in the Norse settlements in Greenland. It was the first Catholic diocese established in the Americas and is now a Latin Catholic titular see.
Harvesting the hay in Vatnahverfi, Garðar
Crosier and episcopal ring of a 13th-century Greenlandic bishop. The skeleton from the grave has been radiocarbon dated to 1223-1290 (the calibrated dating is 1272). Olaf was bishop in Greenland in the period 1246-80, so the grave was likely his.
Kujataa
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Kujataa is a sub-arctic farming landscape in Kujalleq, Greenland. It is the first known example of agriculture in the Arctic, and the oldest evidence of the Old Norse culture spreading outside Europe.
Aerial view of the farms of Qassiarsuk