Wedding at Hvalsey Church
The last record of the Greenland Norse is a wedding
In September 1408 Thorstein Olafsson and Sigrid Björnsdóttir were married in the stone church at Hvalsey. It is the last written record of the Norse settlers of Greenland; within decades the colony had vanished.
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By the time Columbus sailed, there were probably no Europeans left in Greenland. The last record of its Norse settlers is a wedding in 1408; within decades the colony, which had lasted some 450 years, was gone. Share →
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