Hidden Viking trade route emerges from melting ice in Norway

Science Magazine ^ | April 15, 2020 | Andrew Curry

[CheshireTheCat]

In 2011, hikers in the snowy mountains of central Norway came across a 1700-year-old wool tunic, likely belonging to a Roman-era hypothermia victim. As ice in the region has continued to melt, researchers have made hundreds of additional finds. Now, archaeologists have made their biggest discovery yet: a lost Viking trade route that may have been used for hundreds of years to ferry everything from butter to reindeer antlers to far-flung European markets.

[CheshireTheCat]

So were the Vikings ice-skating through that pass?

[SteveH]

ping

[noiseman]

But remember, if any ice melts anywhere that’s bad and “unprecedented.” Hmm....guess the Vikings must have tunneled under the ice because surely their road couldn’t have been ice-free until evil SUVs came along.

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

From the article: The Viking Age was one of small-scale globalization.

That’s one way to describe raping and pillaging. So that makes today’s large-scale globalization what?

[OrangeHoof]

They used it to send Stefon Diggs to Buffalo.

[nutmeg]

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[dennisw]

I very much like Vikings on the History channel. Kind of B and corny but still very good. For sure I was always looking at their backdrops. Much more watchable than typical Hollywood swill.

Still some more Vikings episodes to come in a few months.

[Pontiac]

But remember, if any ice melts anywhere that’s bad and “unprecedented.”

Absolutely.

So, we won’t be seeing any reporting of this find in the MSM as a shocking discovery that refutes the Consensus that climate change brought on by excessive human CO2 generation is causing Global Warming.

Nope, won’t be seeing that in the news.

[FreedomPoster]

That was the Medieval Warm Period, AKA the Medieval Climate Optimum. Of course now everyone tries to sweep that nomenclature, even the event, under the rug, because their grants depend on pushing the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change / Global Warming party line, and that history isn’t politically correct. So it gets erased, much like Trotsky was.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping to my previous.

[Pontiac]

But remember, if any ice melts anywhere that’s bad and “unprecedented.”

And of course, the Medieval Warm Period ended with the Mini Ice Age.

Following the Mini Ice Age was the modern warming period that began in the mid Eighteenth Century about 100 years before the Industrial Revolution that supposedly started Global Warming.

[momincombatboots]

Because not only a scientist, but also an expert said so. They tell us what to believe. They are infallible, inerrant and smarter than all of us commoners.

[Pontiac]

“It’s a society operating close to the carrying capacity of the landscape,” Sindbæk says. “If there wasn’t such a large population, they wouldn’t need to exploit these niches.”

There are other just a reasonable possible reasons to live in a remote place.

A small group looking for unoccupied land for instance.

In a feudal society where arable land is tied up by the aristocracy you have to go to remote places to find free land to farm.

[4Liberty]

+1

[Sacajaweau]

Those reindeer farts were devastating.

[small farm girl]

From the article
The team identified dozens of piled stone cairns marking a path up from the valley below, and the foundations of a shelter just below the ridgeline. “It dawned on us that this was a mountain pass,” from a river valley nearby to high mountain pastures, Piloe says...Locals used year-round snow cover to navigate the ridge’s jagged rocks...with the so-called Little Ice Age, a centuries long cold spell that began around 1300 C.E., the plague crushed the area’s economy. The pass was forgotten for more than 500 years—until archaeologists rediscovered it. After another extreme summer melt in 2018, Piloe says, all Lendbreen’s Viking-era ice, along with the artifacts it once concealed, is probably gone.

I'm confused. So they preferred travel on snow but then the Little Ice Age ruined the pass for them? They somehow built stone cairns and a foundation under the snow? Or did they build them on top of the snow/ice and when that melted the stones settle on the actual ground? They were bringing their sheep up the snow covered mountain to pastures? And now that global warming has destroyed the "Viking era ice", all the artifacts they are describing are gone too? I guess I am too stupid to be reading anything in Science Magazine.

[kickstart]

I wonder what brand of tire tracks were left by their SUVs.

[VeniVidiVici]

No, the Vikings back then were REAL men. They made their own trade routes on top of ice and during severe snow storms.

No global warming for those guys!!

;)

[PapaBear3625]

Vikings settled in northern France, intermarried with French women, and become known as the Normans ("north men"). The Normans later went on to invade Britain and become the British aristocracy.

[Midwesterner53]

So there was no ice there when the Vikings were around? You mean climate changes on it’s own??? (No internal combustion engines 1000 years ago I assume)