Today I learned on Nostr: TIL Greenland was so remote that no-one realised the Viking settlements had died out ...

TIL Greenland was so remote that no-one realised the Viking settlements had died out until 1721, when missionaries visited the island expecting to find Norsemen who may have relapsed to paganism and instead found ruins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Greenland
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/170z2po/til_greenland_was_so_remote_that_noone_realised/