Norse Greenland: Selected Papers from the Hvalsey Conference 2008

Journal of the North Atlantic Special Volume 2, 2009–2010

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Front Cover
Masthead
Frontmatter
Title Page	1
The Hvalsey Fjord Church Aleqa Hammond	2
Foreword Jette Arneborg, Georg Nyegaard, and Orri Vésteinsson	3
The Hvalsey Conference 2008 Program	4
Conference Delegates	5
Research Articles
Restoration of the Hvalsey Fjord Church Georg Nyegaard	7
The Human Skeletons from Herjólfsnes Niels Lynnerup	19
The “Dairy Farm” of the Hvalsey Fjord Farm Jette Arneborg, Fuuja Larsen, and Niels-Christian Clemmensen	24
The Place of Greenland in Medieval Icelandic Saga Narrative Jonathan Grove	30
Early Religious Practice in the Greenland Settlement Lesley Abrams	52
Greenland and the Wider World Guðmundur J. Guðmundsson	66
The Runic Inscriptions from Vatnahverfi and the Evidence of Communication Lisbeth M. Imer	74
Continuity and Change: The Dwellings of the Greenland Norse Mogens Skaaning Høegsberg	82
The Use of Artistic Media in Norse Greenland Lilla Kopár	102
L'Anse aux Meadows, Leif Eriksson's Home in Vinland Birgitta Wallace	114
The Ethnicity of the Vinelanders Gunnar Karlsson	126
How Did the Norsemen in Greenland See Themselves? Some Reflections on “Viking Identity” Anne-Sofie Gräslund	131
Parishes and Communities in Norse Greenland Orri Vésteinsson	138
The Rediscovery of Greenland during the Reign of Christian IV Vivian Etting	151
Graves and Churches of the Norse in the North Atlantic: A Pilot Study Berit Gjerland and Christian Keller	161
The Case of the Greenlandic Assembly Sites Alexandra Sanmark	178