[mamelukesabre]

There’s plenty of viking evidence in canada too. I read somewhere that they think the vikings doomed themselves by stubbornly adhering to european farming practices. Sheep and pigs, etc, and horses for travel. These aren’t the best for arctic like winters. I’ve often wondered why the reindeer herding people from extreme northern scandinavia never colonized canada. Reindeer would’ve thrived there.

[bert]

......Reindeer would’ve thrived there.....

It turns put they would not. here is a very good and funny reason.

I recently visited Alaska where a prominent tourist menu item is reindeer sausage. It is pretty much ordinary sausage with about 5% reindeer meat.

The greal Alaska reindeer raising venture failed. They cannot raise domesticated reindeer in Alaska because.......

the females runoff with caribou males. The herds are depleted and gone before they can be harvested and raise younguns.