The End
Words not pictures, describe the passing away of the Viking attempt to settle North America. The ravages of bubonic plague, which swept across Europe and decimated the
populations of Norway and Denmark, finally severed all contact with Greenland. By the end of the 13th century the Viking settlements had been abandoned, the inhabitants gone,
leaving Greenland’s Skraelings - the Eskimos - to occupy them. Less than two hundred years later other Europeans stepped ashore in the Americas. By then, the Viking achievement
had become a faint memory, lost in the mist of time.
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