This documentary details the Vikings discovering and settling in Iceland, Greenland, and North America starting in 800 AD.  It describes Erik the Red settling Greenland in 982 AD; relations between the Vikings and the native Inuits who lived on the island; Leif Erikson discovering North America in 999 AD; how the Vikings were eventually driven out by the cooling climate of the “Little Ice Age” that started in the 1300s; and how the Black Death came to Greenland on its ships, decimating the populations of the people.