![]() Like the qajaq and the ulo, the dogsled is also a tool from the past, although it is probably the traditional appliance that is most used in today’s modern society. The ulo, which is a special, curved knife used by the women to cut up the prey the men brought home from the seal hunt, is also worthy of mention. This applies to, for example, the qajaq – the Greenlandic sea kayak – which is perhaps the best symbol of an Arctic culture that has lived on, by and from the sea and its resources. The hardy Inuit cultures have survived in Greenland by inventing and developing essential tools and implements that have been adapted and refined over generations, and which are in fact still in use today. TOOLS FROM THE PAST UNTIL THE PRESENT DAY They are therefore popular destinations that attract tourists wishing to gain an insight into an exciting culture from the Viking period. Many of the Norse settlers’ ruins are still visible on plains and mountainsides in South Greenland and at Nuuk. ![]() The Norse population disappeared from Greenland in around 1500 AD for reasons that have never been fully explained – although countless well-founded theories about their disappearance still flourish today. This is described in detail in the Icelandic sagas. This final Inuit immigration took place at around the same time as the arrival in Greenland of the Norse settlers and Erik the Red, which was in 982 AD. THE NORSE SETTLERS AND THE VIKING PERIOD IN GREENLAND Greenland’s population today is descended from the last immigration, the Thule culture, which arrived here in around the 9th century AD. No less than six different Inuit cultures have immigrated in several waves. The first people to set foot in Greenland arrived around 4-5000 years ago from the North American continent via Canada when the sea froze in the narrow strait at Thule in northern Greenland. ![]() ANCIENT HISTORY, HISTORY AND MODERN TIMES
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