Petursvik

Pétursvík belonged to the Norse Eastern Settlement in southern Greenland, in the fjord country near a lake and a broad valley. The medieval account of Ívar Bárðarson describes a church at Pétursvík holding the neighboring settlement of Vatnsdalr. A large convent dedicated to Saint Olaf and Saint Augustine lay farther up the fjord. Farms and religious estates occupied the sheltered land between ice, mountains and sea, combining livestock with the resources of the surrounding waters.