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Eric the Red: The Incredible Story of Greenland’s First Viking
Unlike Iceland, Greenland had been settled before the Vikings arrived. The Dorset people had been living in Greenland and the ...
Business Insider India8 年
One of the world's biggest archaeological mysteries is melting away before our eyes
What we do know, at least, is that the Norse group was led by Erik The Red, who founded the first European settlement in Greenland after being exiled from nearby Iceland. The Norse that came with ...
National Geographic news5 年
Viking Weather
Erik's bald-faced marketing worked. Some 4,000 Norse eventually settled in Greenland. The Vikings, notwithstanding their reputation for ferocity, were essentially farmers who did a bit of ...
Cambridge University Press2 年
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland
the master trope of the fabled lost Eastern Settlement. Rix's magisterial study is a gripping read, a benchmark publication.' Christoph Bode, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ‘In The Vanished ...
Cambridge University Press3 个月
The Vanished Settlers of Greenland
the master trope of the fabled lost Eastern Settlement. Rix's magisterial study is a gripping read, a benchmark publication.' Christoph Bode - Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich ‘In The Vanished ...