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Vikings may have predicted climate change on ancient stone carving
New York Post ^ | January 21, 2020 | Chris Ciaccia

Posted on 01/21/2020 5:35:34 PM PST by nickcarraway

A startling message on a 1,200-year-old granite slab created by the Vikings appears to predict climate change, experts say.

The research, published in Futharc: International Journal of Runic Studies, looks at the message that was written after Viking warrior Varin’s son died in battle in the 9th century, foreseeing a new “climate crisis,” similar to the weather conditions that happened nearly 300 years prior.

“This study proposes instead that the inscription deals with an anxiety triggered by a son’s death and the fear of a new climate crisis similar to the catastrophic one after 536 [AD],” researchers, led by Per Holmberg, wrote in the study’s abstract.

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TOPICS: History; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; epigraphyandlanguage; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; middleages; navigation; renaissance
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Haven't we had a Midieval Warm Period and two Little Ice Age periods since the time of the Vikings?
1 posted on 01/21/2020 5:35:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I’m pretty sure it was Adam Thielen.


2 posted on 01/21/2020 5:35:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
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So the Vikings started gorbull warming?
3 posted on 01/21/2020 5:40:14 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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No, it says, “Drink your Ovaltine.”


4 posted on 01/21/2020 5:40:18 PM PST by bgill
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Here.....

Let me translate.

“May a herring swim up your nose.”

Probably one of my ancestors.


5 posted on 01/21/2020 5:40:55 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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No, they didn’t predict it. They went through it.


6 posted on 01/21/2020 5:44:43 PM PST by Crucial
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I think they were more worried about intestinal parasites than climate change. They ate a lot of rotten and undercooked meat. The evidence is, they were absolutely riddled with worms.


7 posted on 01/21/2020 5:45:01 PM PST by samtheman (I hope someone close to Trump is reading FR every day.)
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Almost bought a Viking SUV. Tough to find parts...


8 posted on 01/21/2020 5:45:14 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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The evidence is, they were absolutely riddled with worms.

So that wasn't the "royal we" they were fond of using.

9 posted on 01/21/2020 5:46:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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It looks like a serious disaster. I think I saw at least a dozen hockey sticks!

These idiots see climate change everywhere. It’s like a sixth sense!


10 posted on 01/21/2020 5:46:59 PM PST by ETCM
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This is a sort of paranoid schizophrenia where people see what they are obsessed with, scared of etc... in everything and anything.


11 posted on 01/21/2020 5:47:44 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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It says ‘Cold front coming in.”


12 posted on 01/21/2020 5:47:46 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To me, this is another instance of knowing history and looking at it when studying the weather. Joe Bastardi trumpets this line constantly and he was taught it by his meteorologist father.


13 posted on 01/21/2020 5:48:51 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Next to the runes predicting global warming was a carving depicting ManBearPig, and the message included the cryptic lament, “If only Greta were here to warn us.”


14 posted on 01/21/2020 5:49:26 PM PST by Rocky
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The year 536, is the beginning of the Dark Ages and then the Justinian Plague. What caused the Dark Ages? My guess is volcanic ash darkening the skies for a few years that caused crops to fail, etc due to summers without sunlight. It literally was the Dark Ages.


15 posted on 01/21/2020 5:49:47 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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Why do you think they call it Greenland? At the time the weather moderated enopugh to allow settlement in the southern end of Greenland and colonization for a time

And during that period Grapes were able to be grown in the northern most parts of England

Look up Vinland as well


16 posted on 01/21/2020 5:51:56 PM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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Let me guess that these “researchers” will discover the Vikings had their own version of Greta Thunberg speaking out against climate change!


17 posted on 01/21/2020 5:52:18 PM PST by dowcaet
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Vikings were worried that the climate would get colder and they would have to abandon their Greenland colony.
18 posted on 01/21/2020 5:56:10 PM PST by fso301
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The inscribed stone that was found next to it is the real interesting one.

It said: "Jefferey Epstein won't kill himself"

19 posted on 01/21/2020 5:56:34 PM PST by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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Well that wasn’t a difficult prediction......the climate has been changing since there was one and it will continue to do so based on natural events...not suvs...


20 posted on 01/21/2020 5:56:36 PM PST by TnTnTn
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