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As opposed to the Norse settlements in Iceland, which continue to persist and form a national identity, the Norse settlements in Greenland were abandoned between 1350 and 1500 and have no historical continuity with the contemporary Danish presence. The decline of the settlements and their contacts with Iceland and the Norse mainland appears to ...
A 2022 study indicates that gravitational effects from a readvance of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet caused a relative sea level rise of "up to ~3.3 m outside the glaciation zone during Viking settlement, producing shoreline retreat of hundreds of meters. Sea-level rise was progressive and encompassed the entire Eastern Settlement.
In 1953, Greenland was raised from the status of colony to that of an autonomous province or constituent country of the Danish Realm. Greenland was also assigned its own Danish county. Despite its small population, it was provided nominal representation in the Danish Folketing. A plantation of exotic arctic trees was created in 1954 near ...
The 2016 game between the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals was the first International Series game to go into overtime, the first to end as a tie, and had at the time the highest attendance of all International Series games (later surpassed by the 2017 game between the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars, which drew an ...
It appeared early this season that the five-game stretch the Vikings just completed, from their Nov. 7 game at Washington through their game on Sunday against the Jets, would be their toughest of ...
The Vikings have not reached the Super Bowl under their leadership, but a lack of resources and ambition from ownership does not rank among the reasons. "They give us freedom to build the team how ...
Oct. 11—Second-year receiver Justin Jefferson was unguardable throughout the first half of the Vikings' 19-17 win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday. He had five catches for 104 yards before ...
Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.