This is my last ask from yesterday!!!!! WOOOOOO (A bit of explanation: monochromedsunshine had previously asked a very general question, so I wrote back asking for something more specific.)
Okay, so Erik the Red was pretty funny. He sailed west to Iceland because he got in a spot of trouble (he murdered a man) back home in Norway, and was exiled. Then he got exiled from Iceland too. Erik couldn’t or wouldn’t go back to Norway, so he decided to sail into the sunset. Luckily for him there was Greenland on the other side. A land of inviting fjords and fertile valleys, at least on the coasts, Erik sailed back to Iceland to convince more settlers to join him. To help persuade them, Erik called the new place “Greenland.” And he must have been persuasive because in 985 CE he set sail with 25 ships of Icelandic settlers. Fourteen survived and arrived. Unfortunately Erik had exaggerated the bounty of Greenland, which was less fertile and harder to survive on than Iceland (ironically). Some went back, but most stayed and tried to make a go of it. They founded two settlements, and by 1000 CE there were about 3,000 Norse living in Greenland on 300 to 400 farms. Life was always difficult, though, and there were conflicts with the local Inuit. By 1500 CE Greenland was abandoned by the Norse.
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