Western Settlement

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Map of the Western settlement of the Norse in medieval Greenland. The area is approximately the modern Municipality of Nuuk. The known farms and churches are identified on the map as well as some probable geographical names spelled as modern English versions of the old Norse names. The red dots indicate known farm ruins. The farm under the sand is more commonly known by archaeologists by the Danish name Gården under sandet - GUS

The Western Settlement (Old Norse: Vestribygğ) was the smaller of the two areas of Greenland settled in around 1000 AD by Norse farmers from Iceland (the other settlement being the Eastern Settlement). Much less is known about the Western settlement than the Eastern settlement, very little mention in the written sources and no direct descriptions in any of the medieval sources on Greenland. The Norse settlement is last mentioned in mid 14th century, when a traveller from the Eastern Settlement found only vacant farms. At its peak, the Western settlement probably had under 1000 inhabitants. Its smaller size was due to the shorter growing season.

Despite its name, the Western Settlement was more north than west of its companion and, like the Eastern Settlement, was located on the southwestern coast of Greenland at the head of a long fjord (farther inland than Nuuk, Danish: Godthåb). The largest of the Western Settlement farms was Sandnes.

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Diamond, J. (2005). Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed. New York: Penguin.

Old Norse}}}
Writing system: Runic, later Latin alphabet.
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: non
ISO 639-3: non

Old Norse
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Anthem
Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit
Nuna asiilasooq

Capital
(and largest city) Nuuk (Godthåb)

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Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who speak one of the North Germanic languages as their native language. ("Norse", in particular, refers to the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Danish,
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Anthem
Lofsöngur

Location of Iceland

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Eastern Settlement (Old Norse: Eystribygğ, Icelandic: Eystribyggğ) was the larger of the two areas of Greenland settled in approximately 984 AD by Norse farmers from Iceland (the other settlement
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City of Nuuk, Greenland
Flying over Nuuk City.
Nickname: Godthåb
Location of the Nuuk Municipality in Greenland
Municipality Nuuk Municipality
First Settled 2000 B.C.
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history of Greenland, the world's largest island, is the history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: an ice cap covers about 95 percent of the island, largely restricting human activity to the coasts.
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Jared Diamond

Born: 10 September 1937 (age 70)
Boston
Occupation: Nonfiction writer, Professor of Geography at UCLA
Nationality: American
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is a 2005 English-language book by Jared M. Diamond, professor of geography at University of California, Los Angeles.
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