HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Medieval Warm Period, Viking Expansion, Greenland Saga
24 Jul 2020
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During the medieval warm period (or climatic or little optimum, 950- 1250 ad), Thule were not the only people moving across the arctic. The norse, or vikings, in their global expansion out of scandinavia starting in the late 700s, made their way eastward to greenland around the year 1000 ad, and established several colonies that may have lasted up to 500 years. They travelled to and possibly created colonies on baffin island (helluland), labrador (markland), and newfoundland (vinland). We know very little about their interactions with indigenous peoples. They would have met thule (and their later inuit descendants), possibly dorset, and. First nations, likely the point revenge complex people on the coast of labrador and their kin (possibly the beotuck) in newfoundland. Norse sagas (which are oral traditions that were recorded on paper probably between 1190 and 1320), archaeological evidence, and the very scanty information found in inuit oral traditions.
