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Originally Posted by Horrido
I don't think the inhabitants of those colonies ever exceeded 50 or more individuals, and there's also some debate as to whether they were year-round settlements or summer fishing villages. A four-hundred-year time frame seems a bit long, too. My impression was a few decades.
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I just saw the History Channel show on "Little Ice Age" that used the Greenland settlement as support for the warmer period one thousand years ago.
In it, the show suggested the Viking settlement was far more than a simple fishing village with a few dozen individuals. Eric the Red founded the colony in either late 900s or early 1000s. His son Leif Ericson followed his lead. The last known record from this settlement was a wedding in the 1450s.
I saw it on TV so it must be true.
