Norse in Greenland: The Colony That Starved

The last record of a five-hundred-year civilization is a wedding invitation. After that: silence.In September 1408, two Icelanders were married in the stone church at Hvalsey fjord, Greenland. The banns were read, the witnesses signed, the paperwork made its way to Iceland. It was completely ordinary — and it is the last dated event in the history of Norse Greenland. No massacre followed. No plagu...