Greenland
Aside from discovering America before Columbus, the Vikings discovered southern Greenland centuries before the Inuit arrived. As the Inuit expanded south, they attacked the Norse settlements, contributing to the disappearance of Europeans from Greenland for hundreds of years.
Greenland
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Odin’s Ravens
It is known in Norse Mythology that the God Odin had two ravens. They were named Huginn (from the Old Norse word for “thought”) and Muninn (from the Old Norse word for “memory” or “mind”) and they would fly all over the world to collect information about all kinds of things for Odin. The two ravens are mentioned in the Poetic Edda as well as other stories that were written in the Viking Age.
Odin’s Ravens