Mystery Of The Vanished Settlers Of Greenland - What Happened To The Lost Viking Colonists?

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3. Not many

and the saddest was one found with the bones of his hunting dog, the dog showing signs of having been slaughtered and butchered. Once the dog was gone, there is no way the man could have continued to hunt.

You might be thinking of the western colony, which had disappeared completely with no bodies present. The bodies they found in their homes were in the eastern settlement, on farmsteads.

A lot of theories have been put forth about the western colony joining the Inuit (although there are no DNA traces( or traveling down the coast of N. America until they found a tribe willing to tolerate them. The most likely scenario, I'm afraid, is the colony loading themselves into boats, trying to make it to the eastern colony or even to Iceland, but the sea ice was too bad and they didn't make it.