In the ninth century AD, the Norse settled first in the Faroe Islands, and then in Iceland, where they built a farming and fishing economy. The Norse culture created in the Faroes and Iceland was chronicled in the Icelandic sagas. Icelanders and other Norse sailors traveled to Greenland, where they built a civilization patterned on those of Iceland and Norway. They also sailed to North America ("Vinland") but stayed there only a few years. By the twelfth century the Icelanders had begun to consider Icelandic a language independent from its ancestor language Old Norse, while Faroese would be considered a dialect of Icelandic until centuries later.