TV programme Vikings depicts the exploits of raiding warriors [AF archive / Alamy]
TV programme Vikings depicts the exploits of raiding warriors [AF archive / Alamy]
Koo koo kachoo.
I wish to state for the record that no walruses were harmed in the creation of my Free Republic account.
So Viking raiding parties included cute blonde chicks. I did not know that.
Yeah, but they at least made cool chess pieces out of them.
Evil humans for being at the top of the food chain.
Mega McCain is proof that the Vikings didn’t hunt all the Walruses to extinction.
Before the Norse settlers arrived, the main business in Iceland was carpentry. And surprisingly all the oysters in the area disappeared.
Perhaps the Vikings were partially responsible for eliminating the walrus from Iceland but I suspect the Medieval Warm Period is more responsible. The habitat became marginal and reduced the number of walrus so that Viking hunting could finish off the remaining ones.
Upon harvesting a walrus, Alaskan Indians (Aleuts, Eskimos) chow down on the undigested clams found in the animal’s stomach.
Greenland too, it seems. But how do researchers differentiate between Greenland walrus and Iceland walrus, being the two islands are so close together?
