Norse settlement of Greenland
985–1450* · Event
Erik the Red leads colonists from Iceland; Norse Greenlanders survive ~450 years before mysterious 15th-century collapse.
On these timelines: Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master
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