Brattahlíð

Brattahlíð was Erik the Red's home at the Viking colony he established in south-western Greenland. It was the site of what is probably the first church in the New World: Þjóðhildarkirkja (Thjodhild's church). This church has recently been recreated. Erik was not himself a Christian, but was converted by his wife Þjóðhildur while on his deathbed.

Brattahlíð still has some of the very best farmland in Greenland, owing to its location at the inner end of Eriksfjord, which protects it from the cold foggy weather and arctic waters of the outer coast.

Brattahlíð was The location of the fyrst Greenlandic Þing (parliament), based on the Icelandic Althing.