Erik the Red's farming colony of turf longhouses and stone churches in the south-west Greenlandic fjords, the springboard for the voyages to Vinland.
After nearly five centuries the cooling climate, isolation and failing trade ended it; the Western Settlement died out by ~1360 and the Eastern Settlement after the last record, a wedding at Hvalsey in 1408.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Norse Greenland (Eastern & Western Settlements) — the shape you scrub through changes in 985 · 1127 · 1341.
The standard history of the Norse Greenland settlements and their disappearance.
Classic account of the Norse expansion across the North Atlantic to Greenland and Vinland.