But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers ... Finding no survivors, he builds a new settlement at Kangeq, near modern day Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, and begins efforts ...

In one anecdote, a member of Leif’s crew, Tyrkir the German, found grapes in a forest near their settlement ... looked just like a Viking Age hearth from Brattahlid in Greenland.

Rather research has indicated that at the peak of Norse settlement in Greenland exports of walrus ivory to Europe were high. Erik the Red and the End of the Viking Adventure in Greenland In 1003 ...

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers, has a history of human habitation that stretches back more than 4,000 years.

FILE - The Hutchinson family is rowed to safety through the ice floes to the trawler Lord Talbot after their plane was forced down near Eker, Greenland, Sept. 28, 1932. (AP Photo, file) ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...

Why was the Brough of Birsay, on the north west coast of the mainland of Orkney, Scotland, chosen as a settlement by the Norse? It was in a very defensible position surrounded almost entirely by ...