For one thing Tarkenton lost all three of those Super Bowls.
Posted on 03/26/2022 6:47:49 AM PDT by dennisw
For the better part of four centuries, Greenland's southern coast defined the westernmost edge of Viking occupation.
Seduced by visions of verdant hills and fertile ground, in the late 10th century waves of Norse migrants set sail in hopes of an easier life abroad. At its peak, the colony's population numbered in the thousands, spread out across three major settlements.
And then it ended. No word of hardship. No record of struggle. By the middle of the 15th century, the Norse experiment in Greenland was a bust.
New research suggests we might have had it all wrong about the prime cause of the collapse, shifting the focus from extreme cold to extreme drought.
Historians have speculated that the cause of the colony's collapse could have been anything from sudden violence at the hands of an invading culture to a gradual decline in birth rates, to hardship brought on by a changing climate.
There's little doubt that a variety of factors were at work, but the consensus has tended to see one as critical – an enduring drop in temperatures referred to as the Little Ice Age.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Oh , I get it now…the Vikings didn’t convert to solar, wind, and evs quickly enough…
Saw an episode where a fella tried it (can’t remember if it was Zimmerman or not now, but i think it wss another fella), and it was one episode where I felt queasy just watching it. I usually have a strongest stomach, but for some reason I could almost smell the rotten-ness of the shark - maybe I wasn’t feeling good or something, but it got to me that show.
So, now we are denying that they went to Newfoundland?
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I blame the players’ union.
That's a shame; with a vocal contingent of climate-change deniers back in the day, the Vikings might still be in Iceland.
and uh, you know Greenland too.
For one thing Tarkenton lost all three of those Super Bowls.
hmm... Greenland..Normandy..Greenland..Normandy... Such a tough choice!
This thread absolutely cries out for a Fran Tarkenton joke.
But...But...But..Professor Michael Mann has written a computer program which proves that the so-called Little Ice Age never happened.
Good thing I’ve got the OS update installed on my time machine... ;^)
Greenland, Normandy and Sicily. Don’t forget Sicily.
Of course the one’s who landed in Sicily thought they had died and gone to heaven and were never heard from again.
Nonsense. There was a good looking woman behind every tree.
“The ended up in Kingston Minnesota, and left behind a runestone describing the date and what happened. I posted the documentary on Youtube with Maxtanic films called 1362 The Kensington Enigma”
How ironic, with present day Minnesota being heavily Scandinavian. With its NFL team named The Vikings.
UMAss is a cesspool of political crap. That’s true.
But their science folks are very good. In the pure science fields, they are worth a listen.
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