Greenland... or Iceland?

I was not talking about Greenland as a whole, but rather just stating that the specific region of Greenland that the Vikings encountered and then settled in was completely uninhabited at the time. The native Dorset Culture was present in northern Greenland, but they did not inhabit the south of the island where the Vikings settled down. It is only once the Dorset were replaced by the Thule/Inuit culture that natives started pushing southwards into areas where the Norse lived in Greenland.

For what it is worth, I was mostly originally commenting on the Papar thing, as there actually is some debate on if the norse were in fact the first to settle in Iceland, as their own accounts claim that there were other people there first even if there is little physical evidence for that being the case. I was not disagreeing that Greenland was inhabited, I was mostly just pointing out that the history of inhabitance was complicated on that island as well, I would say more complicated than just saying that the island was inhabited. The Vikings settled in a region of Greenland hundreds of miles from the areas settled by the Dorset Culture, and as far as I know, they were completely unaware that the Dorset lived in Greenland (Though they did seem to have traded with Dorset peoples living in Baffin Island with some regularity), compared to Iceland, where their legends talk about a monastic culture that already lived there and then moved away after disputes with the pagan norse.

Great Comments Kearsarge!

I very much enjoyed reading them.

Yeah, it's not as obvious as other stuff like exporting oil, but it brings in foreign money through the sale of stuff to foreign people.

Tourism is universally considered an export by economists, unless goods and services are explicitly separated. Anyway, aluminium seems to be Iceland's biggest goods export, not fish.