Archaeological evidence has proven the dog first reached Greenland with the Sarqaq people between 4000 and 5000 years ago.
"Do they say how it reached Greenland?"
By the time they had reached Greenland, they were unable to land due to the large amount of ice near the shore and returned.
It is named after Gunnbjorn Ulfsson, the Viking who was the first European to reach Greenland.
By 4,500 years ago, descendants of this migration had reached Greenland.
Egede reached Greenland in 1721 and, finding no Norse population there, started his mission among the Inuit people.
As soon as he was well, he ran away from home, with the sole idea of somehow reaching Greenland.
The ash spewed into the air was high and voluminous enough to reach Greenland, about 3,500 miles away.
For Denmark, part of the interest was spurred with the possibility of reaching Greenland.
He reached Greenland, believing it to be east Asia, but chose not to land.