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Eric fled
to a new country.html">country.html">country.html">country with great rocky bays and fjords as in
hillsides were bright.html">bright with grass.html">grass, so he called the country
lived in Greenland for three years, and the ruins of
one of the little Danish settlements of to-day. When Eric
they had seen, and soon he led a new expedition to
more than half were lost on the way, but eleven ships
settlers came, and this Greenland colony had at one time
embraced Christianity when their kinsfolk in other places
The settlers raised cattle and sheep, and sent ox hides
supplies. But as there was no timber in Greenland they
the outside world was more or less precarious. In spite
It seems to have come to an end at about the beginning
history can be traced no later than the year 1409. What
writers, misled by the name.html">name 'Greenland,' have thought
the country lost its original warmth and verdure and
belief. The name 'Greenland' did not imply a country of
bright carpet of grass still seen in the short Greenland
have been that the settlement, never strong in numbers,
often attacked the colony: very likely, too, it suffered
all Europe in the fourteenth century. Whatever the cause,
Greenland was again known to Europe.
This whole story of the Greenland settlement is historical
partly by design, the Norsemen had been carried. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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