If you are thinking of traveling to southern Greenland, I suggest brushing up on your Spanish. Who knew that Greenland would be such a popular adventure destination for Spaniards? At almost every point on my Greenlandic journey, I ran into adventure tour groups from Spain. Perhaps drawn by the cooler summer climes of the far north? But beyond the Spanish invasion, Greenland proved an almost indescribable adventure and a fitting conclusion to my Viking themed voyage. Of a historical bent, I was able to stand amidst the ruins of the first Greenlandic Norse farmstead, Brattahlid, founded by the intrepid Icelander Eirik the Red and his kin (also, thrilling, the home of Gudridur Thorbjarnarsdottir whose birthplace I had stumbled upon in Snaefellsnes in Iceland); I gazed at the remains of the cathedral and bishopric in Igaliku (Gardur
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