For the next two or three centuries, the Norse probably continued to make periodic crossings from their colonies in Greenland to obtain timber from the Labrador coast. They can also have occasionally traded for walrus skins and ivory with the native peoples of the Canadian Arctic. Why didn’t the Vikings stay in Canada? It was late in the summer, and he I didn’t want to spend the winter in this new land, which he noted was covered in forest, so he did not land and managed to reach Greenland before winter fell. Since timber was scarce in Greenland, the settlers were eager to explore the riches of this new land.…