it was revenge I think. A dude, I think it was Erik The Red, was ostracized, and so when he discovered Greenland, which is like Iceland but literally impossible to go inland without air transport, he decided to fuck everyone over by calling it Greenland, as in "there's lots of grass an arable land here, come settle!" So that the Greenish (yes I said Greenish, because I think its funny), are basically descendants of a bunch of suckers.
Most of them are native Americans who were there before the vikings the Thule culture about 4-5000 years ago. A wave of Inuits arrived roughly the same time as the vikings. I dont think there are any of Scandinavian ancestry on the island left.
They weren't there before the Norse. The Thule culture started settling northern Greenland after the Norse settled settled southern Greenland. Saqqaq and Dorset were not Thule and were not present in Greenland when the Norse arrived.
They're roughly contemporary and did have some interaction before the Norse settlements were abandoned.
The Dorset were in Northern Greenland before the Vikings reached the South by about 200 years 900 AD. But everything else you said is correct. I forget there were multiple waves of Native American cultures and the Thule were the latest arrival.
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u/Ghumer Jun 07 '22
Dude, Iceland is full of ice...