Greenland

Greenland's Norse settlements occupied the southwestern fjords, with a bishop's seat at Garðar. In 1337 the settlers raised livestock and exported walrus ivory under Norwegian sovereignty, while Inuit lived elsewhere on the island.

The Western Settlement was deserted by the mid-fourteenth century. The Eastern Settlement's last written record was a wedding at Hvalsey in 1408; it too was later abandoned. In 1721 the missionary Hans Egede founded a colony but found no Norse survivors. The Treaty of Kiel confirmed Greenland as a Danish dependency in 1814.