Mikkelsen, Naja, Hoffmann-Wieck, Gerd and Sveinbjoernsdottir, Arny (2002) Climate Variability and Disappearance of the Norse from South Greenland. Mitteilungen der Pollichia, 88 (Suppl.). pp. 77-80.

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Abstract

During thc favourable climatic conditions at the beginning of the Medieval Warm period the Norse established around AD 985 a community called "the Eastem Settlement" in south west Greenland which lastet for almost 500 years. In order to find possible causes for their disappearance a reconstruction of late Holocene climatic changes based on terrestrial and marine investigations have becn undcrtaken in fjord regions of south Greenland. Conditions with incrcased stonn activity associated dcep mixing of fjord waters appear to have culminated at the transition from
the Medieval Warm Period to the Little Jce Age, i.e. the time when the Norse disappeared from
Green land.

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