Ikigait (Danish: Herjulfsnæs) is a former community in Greenland about 3 km west of Narsarmijit. It was the site of Herjólfr Bárðarson's farm Herjolfsnes ("Herjolf's Point"Scott, Brian M. Place-Names in the Landnámabók ". Accessed 28 Apr 2012.), one of the easternmost of the Norse settlements during their colonization of Greenland.Fiske, John. The Discovery of America, Vol. 1. Echo Library, 2009. .
The location was established around 1885, when a few artifacts were discovered and returned to Denmark. In 1921, an excavation was led by Danish historian and archaeologist Poul Nørlund (1888-1951), which found the church graveyard."The Ten-Gore Dress: Cotehardies from Herjolfsnes ". Accessed 28 Apr 2012. References