Brattahlid (Qassiarsuk)

Home of Erik the Red

This reconstructed Viking site in Qassiarsuk marks where Erik the Red settled in 985 AD. It includes longhouses and Greenland’s first Christian church. It’s a UNESCO-listed site central to Norse Greenland history.

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