The name was crowned in irony. Glaciers covered nearly all of Greenland even in Eirik’s time, the last centuries of the Medieval Warm Period (900-1250 C.E.). Still, encouraged by Eirik’s salesy hype, ...

Ruins of a Norse church in Greenland. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 1.0 Scientists may have discovered why the Vikings abandoned their largest settlement on Greenland, reports ...