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There were many prior states. In fact, it changes. Vikings had pastures on Greenland until it got cold and they were driven off. Greenland is now covered in sno

• jbotz 5y ago
  The Viking colonies on Greenland were during a relatively warm period, but the difference was rather minor... it's not like now Greenland is covered in snow and ice and then it wasn't, the glaciers weren't any smaller then, they were actually a bit bigger. But during this warm period that lasted a couple of hundred years the summers were a bit longer and probably more sunny. The Viking settlements were in the far South of Greenland, actually further South than their prior home on Iceland, on land that's quite green in Summer today as well (just visit Greenland's official tourism site to see what it looks like). Tundra vegetation is actually excellent pasture, very mineral and protein rich... enough so to have supported lots of the largest mammalian mega-fauna!
• lifeisstillgood 5y ago
  Is this correct? I thought that Greenland was always a marketing lie, and that the viking's refusal to absorb Inuit style living meant they simply could not become self sustaining and eventually lost the result ships (vaguely remembered BBC podcast as source)