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## [Why Did Vikings Mysteriously Leave Greenland? We May Finally Know The Reason](https://forums.hexed.press/t/why-did-vikings-mysteriously-leave-greenland-we-may-finally-know-the-reason/118)

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**Author:** [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
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**Last updated:** [May 19, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/why-did-vikings-mysteriously-leave-greenland-we-may-finally-know-the-reason/118 "2022-05-19T18:32:11Z")

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“What we discovered is that, while the temperature barely changed over the course of the Norse settlement of southern Greenland, it became steadily drier over time,” says lead author and geoscientist Boyang Zhao, als…