Last recorded contact was 1410.
Can you link it?
Youngest clothing in the graveyard is 1430s.
Source? Im interested.
No signs of violence and anything of value was carefully cleaned out.
"One Inuit story recorded in the 18th century tells that raiding expeditions by European ships over the course of three years destroyed the settlement, after which many of the Norse sailed away south and the Inuit took in some of the remaining women and children before the final attack."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland#Norse_failure
"Because of past limitations in samples and genotyping technologies, important questions about the history of the present-day Greenlandic population remain unanswered. In an effort to answer these questions and in general investigate the genetic history of the Greenlandic population, we analyzed ∼200,000 SNPs from more than 10% of the adult Greenlandic population (n = 4,674).
We found that recent gene flow from Europe has had a substantial impact on the population: more than 80% of the Greenlanders have some European ancestry (on average ∼25% of their genome). However, we also found that the amount of recent European gene flow varies across Greenland and is far smaller in the more historically isolated areas in the north and east and in the small villages in the south. Furthermore, we found that there is substantial population structure in the Inuit genetic component of the Greenlanders and that individuals from the east, west, and north can be distinguished from each other. Moreover, the genetic differences in the Inuit ancestry are consistent with a single colonization wave of the island from north to west to south to east.
Although it has been speculated that there has been historical admixture between the Norse Vikings who lived in Greenland for a limited period ∼600–1,000 years ago and the Inuit, we found no evidence supporting this hypothesis. Similarly, we found no evidence supporting a previously hypothesized admixture event between the Inuit in East Greenland and the Dorset people, who lived in Greenland before the Inuit."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289681/
Greenlandic Inuits have substantial European admixture, but due post-medieval European immigration it is more difficult to discover potential admixture stemming from the Greenlandic Norse. Assuming that the Greenlandic Norse were assimilated by the local Inuit, then it would be likely that their impact on the local population would be highest in the south. Today west-Greenland has the highest proportion of european admixture, allthough this can be due to post-medieval migration. The authors of this paper concluded that there had been no or little admixture between the Norse Greenlanders and their inuit neighbours.
Assuming that the Inuit story of them taking in the Norse women and children, should one not expect some genetic legacy?
Also is it possible to trace potential Norse captives? What were the Norse captives used for? Where would the Norse captives be transported to? Would the Norse captives be killed?
I have heard that the Greenlanders were taken as slaves and sold in Gran Canaria, allthough i doubt this really happened.
We also know the price of walrus ivory (their most important export and probably the economic keystone of the colony) was in decline due to elephant ivory becoming availible again.
Russian walrus ivory exports were also out competing Greenlandic ivory in addition to the African ivory imports.