The Vikings who invaded western Europe eventually disappeared, leaving the traces of their DNA in Ireland, North America perhaps, and on some Mediterranean islands. But those Vikings from Sweden changed history in that they founded a country called Russia.
Normans were French-speaking Vikings (yep, they learned to speak French) who conquered England and changed world history in this regard.
Vikings in North America.
It is known that they settled in Greenland when it was literally green (warm) and lived there for hundreds of years — until it got cold in the 16th century and their descendants were forced to abandon their villages and return to Norway, the land of their ancestors.
The recent propaganda about “global warming” is total BS. Greenland was much warmer during the age of the Vikings.
Greenland is not very far from Canada, if you look at the map.
That is not exactly accurate. They starved to death and did not learn to adapt like the natives who lived off seals and fish. Farming was the one main challenge with short seasons made impossible to store food for the winters months. Keeping livestock was another
The period you are talking about was close to 16th century when it was the beginning of the Little Ice Age. Until then, there were villages on Greenland and they had farming just like in Scandinavia. The Viking (descendants) lived on Greenland for many generations.
Researchers discovered ancient villages and found starved bodies and animals, but that was the very end of their existence on Greenland. Many did return to Norway with which they had kept in contact for hundreds of years.
Yes, there were conflicts with the Eskimos, but that was more in the north of Greenland, because Eskimos don’t know how to farm land.
Today Greenland is covered in snow and ice and MSM makes a big deal of melting glaciers and such. Give us a break. Greenland was green when the Vikings discovered it but they preferred to settle on Iceland which was covered in ice. LOL