Norse and Aztecs · TURNING POINT ·
Hvalsey Church (1408)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Hvalsey church”
16 September 1408 — Þorsteinn Ólafsson and Sigríður Björnsdóttir were married in this stone church, the last written record of Norse Greenland. The same Icelandic witnesses reported a trial for sorcery in Greenland in 1407, evidence that Norse law and church courts still worked there. Its walls still stand, the best-preserved Norse ruin in Greenland.
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- Turning point
- Chapter
- Why the Norse abandoned Greenland (chapter 5 of Norse and Aztecs)
- Atlas
- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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