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The sources on the settlement of Greenland are sparse. The main sources are the Íslendingabók by the scholar Ari Thorgilsson, the Landnámabók (the land seizure book) by an unknown author, but probably with Ari's involvement, [2] the anonymous Grænlendinga saga (Saga of the Greenlanders) and the also anonymous Saga of Erik the Red.
The Eastern Settlement (Old Norse: Eystribygð [ˈœystreˌbyɣð]) was the first and by far the larger of the two main areas of Norse Greenland, settled c. AD 985 – c. AD 1000 by Norsemen from Iceland. At its peak, it contained approximately 4,000 inhabitants.
Map of the "Middle Settlement" of the Norse in medieval Greenland. Red dots indicate known Norse farm ruins. The area was settled by about twenty farms of Norsemen, a district called the "Middle Settlement" by modern archaeologists from its placement between the larger Western and Eastern Settlements. It is the smallest and least well known of ...
Norse people explored Europe by its oceans and rivers through trade and warfare. They also reached Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Anatolia. This category lists towns and settlements established or inhabited by Scandinavian or Scandinavian-descended settlers during the Viking Age (roughly, 750-1000 CE).
Hvalsey ("Whale Island"; Greenlandic Qaqortukulooq) is located near Qaqortoq, Greenland and is the site of Greenland's largest, best-preserved Norse ruins in the area known as the Eastern Settlement (Eystribyggð). In 2017, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and part of the Kujataa Greenland site.
Skræling (Old Norse and Icelandic: skrælingi, plural skrælingjar) is the name the Norse Greenlanders used for the peoples they encountered in North America (Canada and Greenland). [1] In surviving sources, it is first applied to the Thule people , the proto- Inuit group with whom the Norse coexisted in Greenland after about the 13th century.
Qassiarsuk about the present settlement on the location; Garðar, a bishopric seat founded in the 12th century close to Brattahlíð; An Old Captivity (1940) by Nevil Shute is a fictional account of an early aerial investigation of the old Norse settlement at 'Brattalid' and of Leif Ericson's journey to North America
The Western Settlement (Old Norse: Vestribygð [ˈwestreˌbyɣð]) was a group of farms and communities established by Norsemen from Iceland around 985 in medieval Greenland. Despite its name, the Western Settlement was more north than west of its companion Eastern Settlement and was located at the bottom of the deep Nuup Kangerlua fjord ...