Ghost Stories at the End of the World

A 600-year-old anniversary & the mystery that follows it

Hvalsey Church in southern Greenland, looking southwest. The church was built around 1300 AD, some 150 years before the Viking colony collapsed.

How long do old ghosts last? How long do they have the power to speak to us, to haunt us?

I’m wondering this today on the wedding anniversary of Thorstein Ólafsson and Sigrid Björnsdóttir, who were married in Gr…