Circa A.D. 985 The Norse explorer Erik the Red arrives in Greenland with a fleet of Viking ships, according to the medieval Icelandic sagas. The Norsemen established two settlements that had a peak ...

According to the sagas, Erik settled in the Eastern Settlement. Unlike Iceland, Greenland had been settled before the Vikings ...

There are also three abandoned Viking settlements in Greenland that visitors can go to see how they lived. They called them "skraelings" - the native inhabitants they encountered in their new world.

But Greenland, named by Viking adventurer Erik the Red to attract settlers, has a history of human habitation that stretches back more than 4,000 years.

FILE - The Hutchinson family is rowed to safety through the ice floes to the trawler Lord Talbot after their plane was forced down near Eker, Greenland, Sept. 28, 1932. (AP Photo, file) ...