Vikings may have predicted climate change on ancient stone carving

New York Post ^ | January 21, 2020 | Chris Ciaccia

[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.

[DouglasKC]

All without cars? Or cows? Or billions of people? How could that be?

[TangoLimaSierra]

Too many campfires and viking funerals.

[Colt1851Navy]

only thing they can predict is who is going to beat them next Sunday.

[Lurkinanloomin]

They observed that the climate changes, duh.

The climate has been changing since the beginning of time, long before man could have done anything about it.
We still can’t do anything about it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks a fool in paradise. This week's winning research team in the ongoing "who's stupid?" contest.

[a fool in paradise]

Land, wealth, and women were free for Vikings, they just took it from other societies.

[Deplorable American1776]

True...

[Deplorable American1776]

Bjorn the Viking blamed reindeer gas for the rise in temperature. 😋

[Deplorable American1776]

I believe you translated it wrong. It said 'Green Bay Packers is Great.' 😋

[shotgun]

I thought that is why they built a new indoor stadium?

[Red Badger]

From Viking Warrior Varin to Greta Thunberg..............They’ve regressed....................

[Grampa Dave]

Land, wealth, and women were free for Vikings, they just took it from other societies.

Sounds like so many elite liberals in today’s world.

Wonder if Greta’s ancestors were like this.

[Grampa Dave]

It said 'Green Bay Packers is were Great.'

[Bob Ireland]

Did you get a chance to look at that Word doc that I sent? Not the hottest item around, perhaps should be: plagiarism.

[blam]

Hmmmm.

It's been years since I've linked this 17 year old article.

The Dark Ages: Were They Darker Than We Imagined?

And....

Exodus To Arthur: Catastrophic Encounters With Comets

[blam]

" Same thing happened in New England in 1816 - the year without a summer. Freezing temps every month of the year. "

Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death (The Infamous 'Year Without Summer')

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve really got to get my email. Speaking of BAR, I think I’ve got instructions on there of how to log on (I subscribed for the first time in a few years).

[Redcitizen]

Vikings being Vikings, they immediate gave their thunberg version a Viking funeral while she was still alive.

[Bob Ireland]

***Speaking of BAR, I think I’ve got instructions on there of how to log on (I subscribed for the first time in a few years)***

I canceled my subscription some months ago... I am too old and too much serious seditious politics going on. Up FR! :^)

You can subscribe to the electronic version of BAR and receive access to all of the old issues from day one. I think I also let that expire.

I cannot get over the sense that the new editor - Robert R. Cargill - has changed the direction of BAR. I get numerous solicitations via email but rarely get the Historical Review articles I used to get. Sales appears to have become the most important thing. I try to overlook the fact that Cargill used to appear on 'Ancient Aliens' albeit as an authority. 🙄

I suppose their ignoring my alert to Orly Goldwasser's potential plagiarism didn't help - who needs academic integrity these days? Maybe she endorses climate change! _ ? . . . opposes Donald Trump? (The important academic issues.)

[SunkenCiv]

He's really showcasing his repudiation of Shanks' publication of poorly provenanced artifacts etc. That was one thing Shanks was clearly correct about.