For many years the climate of Greenland had steadily become colder until farming was becoming impossible. The people were starving, and many had already left for the ancestral lands of Iceland and Norway.Wood was a scarce commodity in Greenland, but a young man known as Stein the Red was salvaging boards and beams from abandoned houses and even his own home to build a ship so that he could leave Greenland. Stein had inherited a time-worn, yellowed...