• PortugueseDragon [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I don't know much about Greenland but doesn't the Norse settlement actually precede the Inuit settlement by a couple of centuries?

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Nah the indigenous people were there way longer, I think they just lived further north.

      • PortugueseDragon [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yes, but didn't the Inuit come from Canada to Greenland? The indigenous people in the North weren't Inuit I don't think.

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Ahhh, possibly. Did some digging and NATOpedia says there were multiple waves of migrants from Canada but that the ancestors fo the modern Inuit were already there by the time the Vikings arrived.

          • Vampire [any]
            hexagon
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            2 years ago

            Craziest thing about the history of Greenlandic settlement is that people lived in the far north of it 2400 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frigg_Fjord

            I don't know their ethnicity.

    • anaesidemus [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      not that it would matter much since that settlement only lasted until the 1500s. The Danes colonized Greenland again in the 1700s.