For the better part of four centuries, Greenland's southern coast defined the westernmost edge of Viking occupation.
Seduced by visions of verdant hills and fertile ground, in the late 10th century waves of Norse migrants set sail in hopes of an easier life abroad. At its peak, the colony's population numbered in the thousands, spread out across three major settlements.. No record of struggle. By the middle of the 15th century, the Norse experiment in Greenland was a bust.
Pointing instead to records of temperature and precipitation buried in the sediment of a site near the remains of an ancient Norse farmstead, the team suggests it was a stark decline in summer rains that made living in Greenland increasingly unviable.The very name of Greenland itself is a misnomer, intentionally crafted by the founder of the island's Viking colonies Erik 'the Red' Thorvaldsson as propaganda to draw willing settlers in from afar.
As difficult as a Viking life in Greenland sounds, from its establishment in 985 CE the population prospered and expanded over the course of several generations, before disappearing from historical records sometime in the mid-1400s.
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