How Vikings Settled the Edge of the World

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]What drove Norse explorers to sail beyond the known world and settle in a land of ice and mystery?

[00:00:06]In the late first millennium, Eric the Red led a fleet from Iceland to the vast uncharted [music] island we now call Greenland.

[00:00:13]Braving freezing seas, the Norse established farming settlements and built sturdy turf [music] houses on the island's southwestern coast.

[00:00:21]For centuries, these settlers thrived, trading walrus ivory and exploring [music] further west. Yet, their communities mysteriously vanished after several generations, [music] leaving behind only ruins and legends of their daring adventure at [music] the edge of the Atlantic.