Perfectly suited for the story of the Norse Greenlanders, the most haunting novel I ever read: Jane Smiley’s The Greenlanders (1988): http://www.amazon.com/Greenlanders-Jane-Smiley/dp/0394551206/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Great book and you are right, haunting.