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Norðrseta walrus hunting grounds (1000–1350)
On the Norse and Aztecs map as “Norðrseta — the walrus grounds”
c. 1000–1350 — The northern hunting grounds around Disko Bay, some 800 kilometres north of the Eastern Settlement, where Norse men rowed each summer to hunt walrus for their tusks and hides. By the twelfth century almost all walrus ivory reaching Europe came from Greenland.
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- Vikings in Greenland and Vinland (chapter 4 of Norse and Aztecs)
- Atlas
- Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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