Jared Diamond's Collapse discusses the difficulty of raising cattle in this place, whose residents relied on goats as their primary livestock.
Description acceptableArchaeological remains from this community include the "Burgundian cap" found in one of its cemeteries and the ruins of the so-called "farm beneath the sand." It has been speculated that residents of this place may have been bought out by an Anglo-Azorean syndicate of lumber merchants, enslaved to raise bananas on Madeira, or pillaged by marauding Basque pirates. Jared Diamond's Collapse discusses the difficulty of raising cattle in this place, whose residents relied on goats as their primary livestock. Hans Egede's Hope expedition unsuccessfully searched for (*) missing residents of this place. The sandstone church of Gardar was the cathedral of this place, whose final appearance in the documentary record is the notation of a wedding at Hvalsey church in 1408. The "Eastern Settlement" and "Western Settlement" were the two primary divisions of, for 10 points, what North Atlantic outpost colonized by Eric the Red?
Description acceptableArchaeological remains from this community include the "Burgundian cap" found in one of its cemeteries and the ruins of the so-called "farm beneath the sand.
Norse Greenland (prompt on "Greenland"; accept equivalent answers indicating Greenland in the Viking age or late medieval period; accept Eastern Settlement or Western Settlement before "Eastern")