Walrus may have triggered the start and the end of the first European settlements in Greenland
A visit to the original Icelandic home of Erik the Red offers a solution to a riddle: Why did Europeans set sail to Greenland in the first place?
October 26, 2022
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I had expected it to be somewhat larger. Perhaps even a whiff of the regal, signs of a Viking ruler, a few glimmering swords in the corner, perhaps a fur cape, ornaments indicating the grand turns of history instigated by those tall and longhaired men and women who lived here.
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