Sandnes

Sandnes was a prominent Norse church farm in Greenland's Western Settlement, on a low plain at the head of the Ameralik fjord system. Its buildings included a church, dwellings and barns, surrounded by hayfields used to support livestock through the winter. The farm also took part in the northern hunt: remains of worked walrus tusks point to the preparation of ivory for export. Sandnes connects the pastoral life of the Greenlanders with their long-distance exchange across the North Atlantic.