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Viking barley in Greenland
ScienceNordic via Past Horizons ^ | Monday, February 6, 2012 | Sybille Hildebrandt, tr by Michael de Laine

Posted on 02/11/2012 7:20:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: SunkenCiv

——baking bread -—

I did not know barley was milled to flour.

I thought it was for thickening stew and beer


41 posted on 02/11/2012 8:56:02 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: Dysart
I've always believed the discovery of alcohol was an accidental one of via the ingestion of fermented fruits and grains by some famished hairy guy many moons ago.

Fermented apples, 5 months ago, in Sweden.

42 posted on 02/11/2012 8:57:09 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Sacajaweau

Beer and wine allow one to live.

Water, contaminated water kills.

Fermentation is a natural phenomenon.


43 posted on 02/11/2012 9:01:43 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: PilotDave

In the article, it says that carrying the barley as cargo to Greenland would have been impracticle because of the limited space on the ship.


44 posted on 02/11/2012 9:01:53 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: BerryDingle

Been there. But that was years ago and I was drifting...


45 posted on 02/11/2012 9:29:20 AM PST by Dysart ("Don't worry, it's not loaded")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Arrrrrrrrrrr! Pour me anotherrrrrr!


46 posted on 02/11/2012 9:34:57 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: bert

We’ve barley scratched the surface of its many uses.


47 posted on 02/11/2012 9:39:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: PilotDave; Bigg Red

Thanks Bigg Red.

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2012/viking-barley-in-greenland


48 posted on 02/11/2012 9:42:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: Sacajaweau

We used to work & live with a hunter-gatherer tribe in Africa.
They did NOT:

Use the Wheel
Use the Plow
Weave
Make Bread
Have a Written Language
Make Rope

However, they were very intelligent, spoke two or three or more languages

AND

They made BEER..... lots of it, when they had a reasonable harvest of millet.


49 posted on 02/11/2012 9:48:46 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: SunkenCiv
Kensington, Minnesota, claims to have a runestone left by Vikings in the 1300s. Many people doubt that the Vikings made it all the way to Minnesota.

In light of these latest findings, maybe the explanation is that they were trying to find Milwaukee and just took a wrong turn.

50 posted on 02/11/2012 10:10:11 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rebelbase

They got at least as far as L’anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland around 550 years before the Pilgrims.


51 posted on 02/11/2012 10:27:04 AM PST by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

But that doesn’t explain what happened to all the rich polar bears.


52 posted on 02/11/2012 10:48:33 AM PST by Will we know the moment (e are no longer a republi)
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To: Rebelbase
"How different would life be had the Vikings settled Plymouth 600 years before the Pilgrims? "

Somewhere, someone is being taught that the Africans showed them how to do it. Otherwise, it wouldn't have happened.

53 posted on 02/11/2012 10:53:07 AM PST by blam
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To: svcw
I read just recently that the Egyptians paid their works in meat and beer.

It was found that beer made to the ancient Egyptian recepe contains an antibiotic (tetracycline.

54 posted on 02/11/2012 11:18:19 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Romney just makes me tired all over.)
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To: svcw
I read just recently that the Egyptians paid their works in meat and beer.

It was found that beer made to the ancient Egyptian recepe contains an antibiotic (tetracycline.

55 posted on 02/11/2012 11:23:52 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Romney just makes me tired all over.)
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To: Mike Darancette

That is interesting about the antibiotic.


56 posted on 02/11/2012 11:25:53 AM PST by svcw (Only difference between Romney & BH is one thinks he will be god & other one thinks he already is.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Rebelbase
was it warm enough for growing barley

...just barley...

57 posted on 02/11/2012 6:02:38 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: SunkenCiv

And, thank you, Civ, for all of your great posts.


58 posted on 02/12/2012 5:30:15 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: bigheadfred

Inuit all the time.


59 posted on 02/12/2012 7:16:09 AM PST by SunkenCiv (FReep this FReepathon!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for posting this material.

Regards,

WesternCulture


60 posted on 02/15/2012 10:23:32 PM PST by WesternCulture
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