Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Of the twenty-five ships that set out, only fourteen survived the journey to reach the sheltered fjords of southern Greenland in 986. . . . Churches were built and a bishopric founded, but by the mid-fourteen century what meteorologists term 'the Little Ice Age' had set in, gradually extinguishing life in this most remote of settlements on the edge of the Western world." [Furtado: 1001 Days] In 874 Norsemen first settle in Iceland. [Wikipedia: Timeline of Middle Ages]