ABSTRACT
In fact, the Herjolfsnes graveyard preserved bodies and clothing in the subsequently permanently frozen ground, the dresses including European models of about the year 1500. But ships from Hamburg beaten off course to Greenland about 1540 found only one dead Norse body and no inhabitants alive. From that time on only whalers, or explorers such as Hudson in 1607, occasionally happened to get through the ice belt to this or that point on Greenland’s deserted Arctic shores, until in the 1720s the Danish-Norwegian state once more founded posts, again in southwest Greenland. There were no settlements in east Greenland before the nineteenth century.
