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Norse Greenland (Eastern & Western Settlements)

985 – 1450
ColonyNorth America

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.

Borders in 1341 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Norse Greenland (Eastern & Western Settlements) — the shape you scrub through changes in 985 · 1127 · 1341.

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