<P> According to the Sagas of Icelanders , Norsemen from Iceland first settled Greenland in the 980s . There is no special reason to doubt the authority of the information that the sagas supply regarding the very beginning of the settlement , but they can not be treated as primary evidence for the history of Norse Greenland because they embody the literary preoccupations of writers and audiences in medieval Iceland that are not always reliable . </P>
<P> According to the Sagas of Icelanders , Norsemen from Iceland first settled Greenland in the 980s . There is no special reason to doubt the authority of the information that the sagas supply regarding the very beginning of the settlement , but they can not be treated as primary evidence for the history of Norse Greenland because they embody the literary preoccupations of writers and audiences in medieval Iceland that are not always reliable . </P>
when did the vikings arrive in north america
when did the vikings arrive in north america
in the 980s
in the 980s