[Vigilanteman]

Why would they? They are willing to do manual labour which Norway's imported Muslims generally are not.

Plus Norway has some of the most generous welfare plans in Europe. I've heard that even the unemployed are treated to a one week paid vacation in spa towns and the like.

Interestingly, the Polish are the biggest foreign group in Iceland (settled by the Norsemen) for much the same reasons.

Plus, some of the most impressive Catholic cathedrals in the world were built by the Norsemen in Greenland when they were there 950-1430 or so. Yes, they are missing roofs now, but still extremely impressive when one considers the Norse community in Greenland was probably never more than 12,000 or so.

[Tax-chick]

Good point.

[Vigilanteman]

Correction: Circa 980 is generally given as the date of settlement of Greenland, though I am not sure why a ± 15 years would not apply here just as the 1430 date ± 15 years would to the demise.

985 is recorded as a first landing date in Vinland (modern Newfoundland) which was thought to have taken place when a merchant fleet from Iceland to Greenland was blown off-course.