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Who created the first European settlement in Greenland? the British the French the Spanish the Viking

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It was the the Viking.

Actually, the first person known to have settled in Greenland was Erik the Red, from Norway, who first sailed to Iceland and then to Greenland.
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The first European settlement in Greenland was created by the Vikings.

Step-by-step explanation:

Greenland has been inhabited, although not continuously, since the middle of the third millennium BC by Amerindian peoples. In the year 986 its southern coast was colonized by populations of Nordic origin coming from Iceland, commanded by Erik the Red, and in 1261 the Greenlanders accepted the Norwegian sovereignty on the island. The Nordic occupation lasted until the beginning of the 15th century.

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