Rewriting the history books: Why the Vikings left Greenland

ScienceDaily
Mar 23, 2022, 7:16 pm146 pts
One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon them in the early 15th century? The consensus view has long been that colder temperatures, associated with the Little Ice Age, helped make the colonies…

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