About: Colonization of Leifria and Vanaheim (Fidem Pacis)

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Prior to their exodus, the Greenlanders had not forgotten Vanaheim completely. There had always been the occasional fishing boat blown off course that ended up reaching the mainland, and it had become a tradition to, every once in a lifetime, sail the fleet south to gather lumber - trees being very rare in Greenland itself. The result was that the Greenlanders had already managed to establish reasonably good relations with the native Beothuk people of Vinland.

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rdfs:label	Colonization of Leifria and Vanaheim (Fidem Pacis)
rdfs:comment	Prior to their exodus, the Greenlanders had not forgotten Vanaheim completely. There had always been the occasional fishing boat blown off course that ended up reaching the mainland, and it had become a tradition to, every once in a lifetime, sail the fleet south to gather lumber - trees being very rare in Greenland itself. The result was that the Greenlanders had already managed to establish reasonably good relations with the native Beothuk people of Vinland.
dcterms:subject	Fidem Pacis Fidem Pacis
abstract	Prior to their exodus, the Greenlanders had not forgotten Vanaheim completely. There had always been the occasional fishing boat blown off course that ended up reaching the mainland, and it had become a tradition to, every once in a lifetime, sail the fleet south to gather lumber - trees being very rare in Greenland itself. The result was that the Greenlanders had already managed to establish reasonably good relations with the native Beothuk people of Vinland. Initially the refugees headed for Leifsbudir, where the sagas told that Leif Ericsson had first landed. However, they found the region already occupied by Beothuk. Instead the natives told the Greenlanders of a natural harbour thirty miles down the coast, sheltered from the ocean and set in an exceedingly fertile land, and so it was at Straumfjörð that Álfur Þórsson built his settlement in 1377. When word eventually filtered back to Norway, along with ships full of the material rewards, King Haakon VI rewarded Álfur by making him bishop and governor of Vinland and sending him a dozen boatloads of settlers to expand the new town. Within a few decades there were flourishing Norse settlements all along the coasts of Vinland and Markland, and other European nations had begun their own voyages of exploration to the New World.

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