page_title: Herjolfsnes
section_title: Later history
hierarchical_section_title: Herjolfsnes / Later history
caption_attribution_description: English: The Skálholt-map made by the icelandic teacher Sigurd Stefansson in the year 1570. Description Greenlands from Bjørn Jonsen of Skarsaa in Iceland from the year 1669, latin by Theodor Thorlac. Note: Helleland ('Stone Land'=Baffin island) Markland ('forest land'=Labrador) Skrælinge Land ('land of the savages'=Labrador) Promontorium Vinlandiæ (the promontory/cape of Vinland=Newfoundland) Deutsch: Die Skálholt-Karte des isländischen Lehrers Sigurd Stefánsson aus dem Jahr 1570. Mit einer Beschreibung Grönlands von Björn Jonsen, lateinisch von Theodor Thorlac - beide Isländer - im Jahre 1669 فارسی: نقشه‌ای که آموزگار ایسلندی سیگورد استفانسون در سال ۱۵۷۰ در دهکده اسکالهولت ایسلند ترسیم کرده‌است. مناطق پایین‌تر از گرینلند در آن به ترتیب این‌گونه نامیده شده‌اند: هلولند (سرزمین تخته‌سنگ‌ها - جزیره بافین)، مارکلند (سرزمین پردرخت - لابرادور)، اسکارلینگه‌لند (سرزمین بومیان وحشی - لابرادور)، و سنگپوز وینلند (نیوفاندلند).
context_page_description: Herjolfsnes was a Norse settlement in Greenland, 50 km northwest of Cape Farewell. It was established by Herjolf Bardsson in the late 10th century and is believed to have lasted some 500 years. The fate of its inhabitants, along with all the other Norse Greenlanders, is unknown. The site is known today for having yielded remarkably well-preserved medieval garments, excavated by Danish archaeologist Paul Norland in 1921. Its name roughly translates as Herjolf's Point or Cape.
context_section_description: Ivar Bardarson, a Norwegian priest who lived in the colony for nearly 20 years in the mid 14th century as a representative of the Norwegian Crown and the Catholic church, wrote that Herjolfsnes served as the major harbour for Greenland's inbound and outbound traffic and was well known to North Atlantic sailors, who referred to it as "Sand". It is not clear if the harbour was in the immediate area of the church and homestead. The nearby Makkarneq Bay, which offers much better shelter than Herjolfsnes proper, features several Norse ruins that appear to include the foundations of stone warehouses, and is thus a possible site of the Sand harbour that Bardarson described.
  
  Herjolfsnes is the only Greenland settlement shown on the Skálholt Map from the late Middle Ages, which shows the North Atlantic's European and North American coastlines as perceived by Norse explorers.
caption: A copy of Sigurd Stefánsson's 1570 Skálholt Map, correctly showing Herjolfsnes near Cape Farewell.
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