Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/31/2008 8:48:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Farley Mowat wrote a book titled “Farfarers,” in which he postulated that Vikings were not the first Europeans to colonize Greenland or North America. He proposed that instead inhabitants of northern Britain ventured far to seaward and colonized both places some two to three centuries earlier than the Norse.
His belief is based on rather flimsy (in my opinion) archaeological evidence from rock piles in the Canadian high arctic, that he believes resemble similar ruins in the Shetland and Orkney islands.
If you read the book, you can form your own conclusions.
Thanks for the ping. I have seen other articles that say parts of the Greenland coast were green at various times in the past, but the central ice is very, very old.
He is my cousin that is why I was curious. I figured it would center around Scotland and Ireland. Our family land and castle is in John O’Groats and no doubt he has been there.
He mentioned it in the book. I can’t disprove his assertions. They may be correct. I just believe his evidence is weak. A site on the west coast of Greenland carbon-dated to 650AD would be history-making, though and would prove Mowat right.
Quite an admission, isn't it, in light of IPCC's claimed "confidence" CO2 is behind it all.
IMHO, the fact of climate cycles is increasingly understood, but not the cause or causes.
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