Carl Lund

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He saw pasture for sheep and maybe some cattle, rich fishing, walrus to hunt for their tusks and the hide that made such good ropes. He also saw the emptiness of the land, just like Iceland, just like the Faroes. It would be two more centuries before the Inuit moved south into Greenland as the seas began to freeze, and began their challenge to the Europeans:
The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
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