It is the only place in North America where the Europeans were superseded by indigenous North Americans.
There was a culture called "Dorset Culture" that had whale and seal hunting grounds in the North of Greenland during the summer, but they were not permanent residents and likely traded with the Norse in their farmlands further to the south. But the Dorsets were annexed by the Inuit movement (the Inuit was a technological movement more than an ethnic group) and their methods were able to establish year round hunting in all Inuit territory.
There was speculation, but no evidence, that the Inuit raided the Norse and also no evidence that the Norse joined a technologically superior culture (DNA seems to show that Inuit/ Norse genetics did not mix until the early 19th century when Denmark began to resettle Greenland). Most likely the Norse just moved to Iceland when Greenland became too cold around 1450 AD.
After they left the Inuit culture hit it's peak and they moved into old Norse territory.
The Inuit were also the only group in the world to experience a Population explosion between 1348 (Plague) and 1500 AD.
So, if you wanna go by "Who was there first" It was the Norse, Which includes the Danes, but back then Danes, Norwegians and Swedes were pretty much the same people culturally and Linguistically. The "different" Norse languages were Icelandic, Greenlandic, Orkney, Manish, Dublin, and Kievan Rus (The Elites spoke Norse, the shlubs spoke Slavic).
There was a culture called "Dorset Culture" that had whale and seal hunting grounds in the North of Greenland during the summer, but they were not permanent residents and likely traded with the Norse in their farmlands further to the south. But the Dorsets were annexed by the Inuit movement (the Inuit was a technological movement more than an ethnic group) and their methods were able to establish year round hunting in all Inuit territory.
There was speculation, but no evidence, that the Inuit raided the Norse and also no evidence that the Norse joined a technologically superior culture (DNA seems to show that Inuit/ Norse genetics did not mix until the early 19th century when Denmark began to resettle Greenland). Most likely the Norse just moved to Iceland when Greenland became too cold around 1450 AD.
After they left the Inuit culture hit it's peak and they moved into old Norse territory.
The Inuit were also the only group in the world to experience a Population explosion between 1348 (Plague) and 1500 AD.
So, if you wanna go by "Who was there first" It was the Norse, Which includes the Danes, but back then Danes, Norwegians and Swedes were pretty much the same people culturally and Linguistically. The "different" Norse languages were Icelandic, Greenlandic, Orkney, Manish, Dublin, and Kievan Rus (The Elites spoke Norse, the shlubs spoke Slavic).
Statistics: Posted by Kurt — Fri Mar 14, 2025 6:01 pm — Replies 0 — Views 5
