The Dorset were present across Canada's North, and only the Easternmost would have had contact with vikings. The entire Dorset culture was rapidly displaced sh

The Dorset were present across Canada's North, and only the Easternmost would have had contact with vikings. The entire Dorset culture was rapidly displaced shortly after the Thule (Inuit) came across the Bering sea. The Thule do have tales of contact with what is now thought to be the Dorset, and they do suggest the result was violent conflict that the Dorset were simply not ready for. There are also some theories that the Thule might be partly responsible for the abandonment of at least one viking settlement in Greenland. In short, the Thule were bad-ass, possibly to the point of turning the tables on the vikings. To be fair, the vikings of Greenland have very little in common with the vikings of popular culture. They were farmers and traders, not berserkers and pillagers.