Jette Arneborg – Trap Greenland

Jette Arneborg

(b. 1952) MA and Ph.D. in History and Medieval Archeology. Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark.

Kujataa – farming on the brink of the ice sheet

by Christian Koch Madsen, Jette Arneborg

In 1783, Norwegian Anders Olsen, his Greenlandic wife Tuperna and their family settled down as the first farmers after the Norse. They chose the Norse diocese o...

The Norse

by Christian Koch Madsen, Jette Arneborg

Nordic farmer-hunters – the Norse – settled in Greenland in the decades shortly before 1000 AD and thus initiated some 450 years of European history in the ...