James Gray

James Gray is the author of The Arctic: What next? To order, email james@jamesgray.org

Why would anyone want to rule Greenland?

It was the Viking, Erik the Red who, in AD 986, first saw Greenland’s potential. He wanted to colonize his newly-discovered island, and in a blatant piece of tenth-century spin-doctoring hit on a wizard wheeze to encourage other Norse people to come to this bleak, icy and remote corner of the unknown world: “In the

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