The Greenland Vikings: Discovered by a Raging Murderer then Mysteriously Vanished
Channel: Cartoon Traveller
Date: 2024-02-02

On the edge of the known world, far in the frozen north is the Norse settlements of the Greenland Vikings. Life is hard but with grit and determination the Vikings of Greenland manage to not only survive but for a number of centuries thrive! 
Founded by the adventourous yet murderous Erik the Red Greenland, as part of the expanding Viking empire, Medieval Norse Greenland became a base for western exploration, the lucrative trade in Walrus ivory and the last outpost of the light of Christianity.
Home to explorers such as Leif Erickson, who was the first European the settle in the America’s - the mysterious lands beyond Greenland such as Markland and Vinland as the Vikings called them.
Ultimately though, the Greenland Vikings were not to last. Eventually, their trade in decline, a run of natural disasters, human invasions and longer waits between the vital supply ships from Norway meant the Greenland Vikings were destined to fail and mysteriously disappeared into the history books.

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