The Vikings Who Beat Columbus to America
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Do You Think That the Greenland Colony Will Last?
The greenland colony was too small to split up further to found a settlement. We know from the later colonization, it takes three to 400 people. And specially in when you found a new settlement where there is you can't go to a store and buy things. You had to start completely from the beginning. Even with herds, with cattle wit sheep, you have to build them up. So there wre a sort of natural limits then, i suppose, yes. But you could also see the usefulness of finding another area where you have, for instance, treged of since greenland did not have that to any extent. I do think they kept contact with the areos, norfol lands
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