It was located to the north of modern-day Narsaq.

According to Ívar Bárðarson, Dyrnæs was one of the largest parishes in Norse Greenland.

It consisted of a church and several farms, and probably covered the entire western part of the Narsaq peninsula.

[1] The ruins of the church were discovered during an archaeological dig in 1932.

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