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My takeaway from reading Grænlendinga saga and Eiríks saga rauða was that Iceland is where you went when you got kicked out of Norway for killing too many people, and Greenland is where you went when you got kicked out of Iceland for killing too many people.

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“fall of civilizations” podcast episode 4 (https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/2019/03/26/episode-4-...) has an interesting, and alternative, take on this but to distill it, like so many other episodes in the series:

climate change, man-made or otherwise, and the need to adapt pushed humans beyond the conventional borders of their tribes/clans. however, the precipitating event on the move from the mainland was a lot of murder.

I think the edition I read mentioned that the Norse society in Greenland dwindled to nothing because of an inability to adapt to the conditions created by the Little Ice Age; sounds like this podcast has the same idea.

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