[blam]

"The conjecture part (or maybe they had some old records/accounts) was that the Inuit survived by hunting seals, etc. (like they always had). They invited the Norse along, but because of their religious beliefs the Norse thought it would be wrong to go on the hunts as the start of the hunts always began with Inuit religous ceremonies."

I think it was said on that program that they refused to eat fish too.

[muawiyah]

The Innuit ate seals. The seals ate the fish. The Norse ate seals too. They moved because it got too cold for them. The Innuit are cold adapted, as are the Sa'ami. The Innuit continued to eat seals. The Sa'ami took over abandoned Norse farms.

This has been going on for thousands of years.

[geopyg]

“I think it was said on that program that they refused to eat fish too.”

LOL - this from the guys that invented Lutefisk! (Although I’m not sure I would call it fish!?) Makes me think though - why wouldn’t the Norse eat fish??? That was and is a huge part of their diet? Perhaps the folks on Greenland haS become such landlubbers because of the good soil they forgot how to fish. And perhaps they refused fish from the Inuit for religious reasons?

[lepton]

I think it was said on that program that they refused to eat fish too.

My understanding is that the Inuit diet is lethal to most other humans.