Posted on 12/07/2015 6:24:36 PM PST by skeptoid
It has often been cited as one of the classic examples of how changes in climate have shaped human history.
Circa the year 985, Erik the Red led 25 ships from Iceland to Greenland, launching a Norse settlement there and giving the vast ice continent the name "Greenland." Within just a few decades, the Norse -- sometimes also dubbed Vikings -- would make it to Newfoundland as well. They maintained settlements of up to a few thousand people in southwest Greenland for several centuries, keeping livestock and hunting seals, building churches whose ruins still stand today, and sending back valuable walrus tusks and other prizes for trade -- until, that is, these settlements were abandoned by the mid-1400s.
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Well, Richard Widmark played a better Viking than Sidney Poitier played a Moor ...
I think the proper expression these days is "jebwa de bushwa", loosely translated as "the drizzlin' sh-+s".
“The Nordic smart DNA emigrated between ~1840 and 1920”.
Can U pop that up to thru Jan 1928??...When my , then, 17 year old father, got off the Kungsholm and went thru Ellis...on his own !
“A relatively small community could just have few bad years in a row for whatever possibly multiple reasons and be wiped out.”
I can say, with every bit as much “scientific rigor” as the Profits of Doom such as Mann and his AGW Cult o’ Warmenists that those Vikings only needed to stock up on frozen microwave dinners while they applied for US welfare gifts of grain and protein drink mix.
Therefore, their disappearance must be related to Aliens kidnapping humans for experimentation purposes.
My science is just as solid as theirs.
Yes, he was good in one and not so good in the other.
It is accepted by some that the Little Ice Age was correlated with a major decrease in sunspots. There were apparently 3 such incidents starting with the LIA called the Maunder Minimum, then the Sporer Minimum, and I forget the third one’s name. The article linked has a number of interesting comments. A popular theory is that as conditions changed they failed to adapt and use the kinds of foods that served the Inuit well. Also, it has been suggested that with cold, Atlantic storms increased and fewer ships came to Greenland. Some probably died, others might have been kidnapped, and finally some probably went back east.
Only because it took too long to explain them to them...
Ragnar for president!!!
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