In 1828 a Danish expedition was sent out from Copenhagen under the
command of the naval officer and explorer Wilhelm August Graah
(1793-1863). Its goal was to locate lost Norse settlements on the
coast of Greenland, which had existed in certain places from around
the turn of the millennium until their collapse some centuries
later. The Danes did not find any settlement where they searched on
the eastern coast, and the men endured harrowing conditions and
near starvation during three winters. First published in Danish in
1832 and reissued here in its 1837 English translation, Graah's
work opens with a brief history of the exploration and colonisation
of Greenland before recounting his own expedition. Observations on
the Greenlandic Inuit are incorporated as well. Addressing what was
known about the Norse settlements at that time, the appendix also
contains the expedition's scientific observations.
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