Human Ecological Perspectives on Norse Settlement in the North Atlantic

TLDR: In the British Isles and other inhabited regions, the Norse found the islands of the North Atlanticthe Orkneys, Faroes, Shetland, Iceland, and Greenland virtually unpopulated.

Abstract: and other groups of people than about their encounter with new natural settings While the Viking movement to the British Isles and other inhabited regions can be seen as a meeting of different cultural groups, sometimes in trade and sometimes in war, the Norse found the islands of the North Atlanticthe Orkneys, Faroes, Shetland, Iceland, and Greenlandvirtually unpopulated True, there may have been some indigenous people in the Shetland Islands and the Orkneys when the Norse first arrived And the Thule Inuit peoples populated parts of Greenland at the same time as the Norse colonists with evidence showing the groups came increasingly in contact over the centuries Nevertheless, in their migration across the northern seas, the Norse faced challenges to and constraints on their hmdnani, or landtaking, not so much from foreign population groups as from the natural environment