Vatnahverfi

Vatnahverfi, the "lake district," lies among the valleys and fjords of southern Greenland. Norse settlers made farms in this country from the late tenth century, using the relatively mild sheltered land for grazing. Their households combined livestock with hunting marine mammals, adapting farming to the edge of the Arctic ice. Ruins of farms and traces of land use remain among the lakes and hills, recording a way of life that lasted in the Eastern Settlement into the fifteenth century.