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https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/lost-norse-why-did-greenlands-vikings-disappear
In 1721, missionary Hans Egede sailed a ship called The Hope from Norway to Greenland, seeking Norse farmers whom Europeans hadn't heard from in 200 years in order to convert them to Protestantism. He explored iceberg-dotted fjords that gave way to gentle valleys, and silver lakes that shimmered below the massive ice cap. But when he asked the Inuit hunters he met about the Norse, they showed him crumbling stone church walls: the only remnants of 500 years of occupation. "What has been the fate of so many human beings, so long cut off from all intercourse with the more civilized world?" Egede wrote in an account of the journey.
What if instead of encoutering no Norsemen in Greenland, that Hans Egede had encountered a community of Norse who had been cut off from Europe for years?
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