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 ...
Technically he is correct in that it would be much more difficult to be naked in extreme cold. Maybe he is of the impression that it was the first Viking nudist colony.
Tiny horned helmets laying everywhere...
Wait a minute...weren't the Vikings the prototype of a violent invading culture? They got tired of being farmers and there was nobody there to raid...
The TV contract expired after the 6th season...
Climate change had nothing to do with it...
The average temperature in Ireland was stable for all the years of occupation...
Just as they were saying that warming was occurring but in their emails among themselves were wondering why the data did not bear out their conclusions. And conspiring to alter or delete said data. So we're supposed to believe their core samples?
“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.”
(Groan) Drought and advancing glaciers go together. The archeological record shows this all over the northern hemisphere.
Why did Vikings leave Greenland?
The Green Bay Packers kept beating them.....
Yes we’re supposed to believe that.
That’s why they put that poll at the end of the article:
NEWS POLL
Open Menu
Which of these reasons do you personally think is more convincing to explain why the Norse people left Greenland?
Which of these reasons do you personally think is more convincing to explain why the Norse people left Greenland?
Drop in temperatures
Drop in rainfall
Both are equally convincing
Neither one is convincing
Other / No opinion
They are tracking how effective their bullshiite articles are for changing people’s minds.
The real cause;
They were all democrats and voted along party lines until the taxes were so high and they had ruined every aspect of life that they migrated away to Florida-on-the-Hudson, now known as New York. One thousand years later, after not learning their lesson, they’re moving again like the leftist locusts they are and moving to the deep South Bronx, now known as Florida.
~~~This history lesson is brought to you by a Viking Dane and with heavy sarcasm, mixed with morsels of truth~~~
...that is all
An ice age will also cause the moisture to get locked in the form of ice, and not available for rain. So the two go hand in hand.
Didn’t get around to this one this week:
Archaeologists discovered Viking-era hearths in Tõnismägi
Uwe Gnadenteich, ajakirjanik
4. May 2022, 12:33 PM
https://news.postimees.ee/7515065/archaeologists-discovered-viking-era-hearths-in-tonismagi
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