The 'Dark' Ages are reflected in the sources, or lack thereof, for now. c.900 – The Icelanders/Danes/Norwegians colonized south-western Greenland. The West's maritime ecomony stretches from the American mainland to Asia Minor. c.1000 The beginning of the age of sail, but not the end of the age of the oar & yoke: Galley Cog (ship) Were the maryners glad or wrothe, He made them seyle and rowe bothe; That the galley gede so swyfte, So doth the fowle by the lyfte. [Richard Coer de Lyon (c.1300AD)]
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