THE VIKINGS WHO VANISHED FROM GREENLAND
If the number of viable farms declined, the consequences would spread through this network.
The disappearance of one household was not necessarily an isolated event; it could weaken the ability of neighboring households to exchange labor, marry, trade, and cooperate.
ERIK THE RED AND THE PROMISE OF GREENLAND
The story begins with a man whose reputation was already complicated before Greenland entered it.
Erik Thorvaldsson, better known as Erik the Red, was an Icelandic settler associated with violence and exile.
Medieval Icelandic tradition describes him being banished from Iceland after a killing.
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