Quote Originally Posted by rvg View Post
After all adjustments an average American still pays less than an average Englishman. That's all that matters.



Oh fine, be that way, here's your evidence:
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/greenland/

I will emphasize this part:
"Inuit-Norse relations seem to have been fairly friendly at times, hostile at others. Few Inuit objects have been unearthed at the farms. Various Norse items, including bits of chain mail and a hinged bronze bar from a folding scale, have been found at Inuit camps in Greenland, mainland Canada, and on Baffin, Ellesmere, and Devon Islands. These are suggestive of commerce between the two peoples, but they may also have been seized by Inuit during raids on hunting parties in the Nordseta or plundered from farms."

From the Sagas we know that Norse would never trade away their weapons or armor. They were raided.
The Norse in Vinland, not the Norse in Greenland. Also, the Vinland episode is several hundred years before the Norse died out in Greenland. We can also be quite sure of why they died out: They starved, excavations in Greenland have shown that the Norse resorted to eating their dogs, the final stage of starvation before death.

There's one story related in that article which indicates 3 Norwegian ships and a number of Inuits came to blows, but it also says that two of the ships left after the Norse won the battle and only then could Innuit master the third.