2009/01/01 by Alexandra Sanmark · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Historical and Archaeological Studies #Icelandic #Order (exchange) #History #Archaeology #Genealogy #Identification (biology) #Geography #Biology #Ecology #Philosophy #Linguistics #Business
paper · doi:10.3721/037.002.s218
openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
In the early 20th century, scholars identified two possible Greenlandic assembly sites at Brattahlíð and Garðar, respectively. Later scholars, with one exception, have neither refuted nor corroborated this, and research on this topic has therefore not significantly moved forward in the last 100 years. In this article, the two proposed assembly sites are examined in the light of recent research. It is demonstrated that there are striking similarities between the Greenlandic and Scandinavian and Icelandic assembly sites, which strongly support the identification of the former as assembly sites. Further archaeological fieldwork is, however, needed in order to clarify the issues raised in this paper as well as providing new evidence, particularly for dating.