Vatnahverfi

Christian Koch Madsen (2014) Pastoral Settlement, Farming, and Hierarchy in Norse Vatnahverfi, South Greenland. University of Copenhagen, Unpublished PhD thesis. 440 pp.

July and August 2009 and June and July 2010 were the fifth and sixth seasons of the collaborative Norse Settlement in the Vatnahverfi Region, South Greenland ca. AD 985 – 1450 Project. The Danish Middle Ages & Renaissance Department at The Danish National Museum and the Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) collaborated with the ...

Beginning in 2005 as a research project under the IPY, the Vatnahverfi Project initiated a series of years of renewed field work in the Vatnahverfi region, South Greenland (Arneborg et al. 2009, Møller&Madsen 2005, 2006, Møller et al. 2007). Continued under a new and broader research agenda – Resources, Resiliency, and Cultural Identity in Norse ...

July and August 2008 was the fourth season of the collaborative Norse Settlement in the Vatnahverfi Region, South Greenland ca. AD 985 – 1450 Project. The Danish Middle Ages & Renaissance Department at The Danish National Museum and the Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) collaborated with the Northern Science and Education Center at City ...

The summer of 2008 was the fourth season with archaeological field work in the Vatnahverfi region in the Norse Eastern Settlement. The main purpose of the project is to investigate and discuss cultural, social and economic strategies of the Norse Greenland settlement from landnam in the late 980´ties to depopulation in the later part of the ...

The project Resources, Mobility, and Cultural Identity in Norse Greenland AD 980 – 1450 integrates studies of single sites and a regional study of the Vatnahverfi region in the Norse Eastern Settlement. The Vatnahverfi region was densely populated in the Middle Ages and the same is true today, where several of the Norse farms have ...