Norse Vikings
- Famed for their longships, Vikings, in three centuries, founded settlements along the coasts and rivers of mainland Europe, Ireland, Normandy, the Shetland, Orkney, and Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland circa 1000.
- The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north)
Time Table of Norse History in Greenland
982-985
Erik the Red explores and names Greenland, after being outlawed for three years on account of manslaughter in Iceland.
986
Southern Greenland is settled by Erik the Red as he leads the first settlers from Iceland. Erik the Red settles in Brattahlid (today's Qassiarsuk) which becomes the center of the Eastern Settlement.
1000
Leif Eriksson, son of Erik the Red, returns to Greenland from Norway, bringing along the first Christian missionary. Soon hereafter, the first Christian church on the North American continent, Thjódhildur's Church, is built at Brattahlid.
1124-26
Greenland becomes a diocese of its own.
1480-1500
The Norse population of Greenland disappears.
