Ketilsfjord

Ketilsfjord lay in the southern part of Norse Greenland's Eastern Settlement, west of Herjolfsnes. In the geographical account attributed to the fourteenth-century cleric Ívar Bárðarson, it appears as a well-settled fjord whose farms and churches were described through their relationships to river mouths, bays and adjoining land.

The account names Aros Church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, near a large river mouth. Farther inland it places Petersvig and the settlement of Vatnsdal, beside a lake rich in fish. It also describes a community of regular canons dedicated to Saint Olaf and Saint Augustine, with possessions extending toward the fjord's head. These descriptions reveal a landscape organised through ecclesiastical ownership as well as settlement and fishing waters. They preserve a medieval picture of the fjord's religious geography.