ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the resulting interaction and discusses how it ended. Modern industrialised societies can transform the natural environment to make production for human needs more effective and daily life more comfortable and predictable. Western societies have in the last centuries developed from being forced to adapt to the natural environment, to being manipulators of the same environment. Fear of famine is not known to have been a cause of violence in Norse Greenland or other Norse societies in the North Atlantic. The alternative hypothesis is that information or rumours had reached Bergen about problems in the Greenland church, and that Ivar was sent to Greenland to verify them. An independent source confirms that the Norse settlement in Greenland may have had serious problems in 1342."Legitimate violence" organised in Norse Greenland aimed to enforce verdicts and agreements made at the Gardar Thing where both parties were Norse.
