Herjolfsnes

Herjolfsnes was a Norse farm and harbor near the southern end of Greenland, identified with the ruins at Ikigaat. Its buildings included a dwelling, barns and a church with a burial ground. In the fourteenth century the Norwegian priest Ívar Bárðarson described the harbor as familiar to Norwegian and other merchants, a landfall on the route to the Eastern Settlement. Burials preserved woolen garments of medieval European cut, while radiocarbon dates indicate occupation into the middle of the fifteenth century.