The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the only record we have of contact between the two peoples is the remark from a Viking settler that the Inuit bleed a lot when stabbed - an observation that hardly indicates a willingness to learn from their northern neighbors.
Johnjoe McFadden, Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology
greenland, inuit, survival, vikings