Just a start, though, as “there is evidence that the climate was warmer [1,000 years ago], allowing Viking settlements to grow crops for five centuries before mysteriously dying out.”
Just a start, though, as “there is evidence that the climate was warmer [1,000 years ago], allowing Viking settlements to grow crops for five centuries before mysteriously dying out.”
Marketing. They couldn’t get settlers calling it Gross Eisland.
Why did the Vikings call it Greenland? Of course it probably wasn’t all covered in ice and they could grow crops Duh!