The best preserved Norse ruin in Greenland, a church about 16 by 8 metres built of granite fieldstone with shell mortar and walls a metre and a half thick, in the Anglo-Norwegian style of the early thirteenth century, seating maybe thirty-five. On 14 or 16 September 1408 Thorstein Olafsson married Sigrid Björnsdóttir here, witnessed by the priests at Garðar and recorded in Iceland because the couple moved there afterwards. That wedding is the last written record of the Norse Greenlanders. There is nothing after it. Everyone in that building, and everyone in the settlements around it, disappears from history at that point, and what happened to them is still argued. The walls are still standing, on what is now a sheep farm near Qaqortoq.
Qaqortoq, Greenland
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