The Norse settlement

Greenland is the world's largest non-continetnon-continent island located in the Atlantic Ocean and is about 80% covered in ice. About 88% of the people in Greenland are Greenlandic and 12% are Danes and other Europeans. The first people to settle in Greenland were the Norse . A man from Iceland named Erick The Red was tippedtold that there was an undiscovered land in the west. Erick sailed to the country now known as Greenland and explored the land for two years. He discovered that the land would be suitable for raising livestock and growing food. He then named the country Greenland. In 985, Erick The Red travelled back to Iceland and convinced more than 400 people to sail to Greenland. On the way there, many ships were lost or had to return back, but 14 had arrived. The Norse established two colonies, the Eastern settlement and the Western settlement. The colonies survived in Greenland for 450 years until the year 1435. By then, nearly all the vikings had died out.