[Burkeman1]

Fascinating story. I was unaware that the Vikings were actually the first Human presence in Greenland and that the Inuit came later.

[Howie66]

So that's where they grow Vikings? Amazing!

GO!! PACK!! GO!!

[Spruce]

I betcha if they find some ancient Lutfisk it would still be edible.(As edible as Lutfisk gets, that is)

[Pompah]

There are some who say that a group of NorseScots discovered North America and what is now the New England Coast long before Columbus sailed the Ocean blue.
Grave sites have been found in Massachusetts with Celtic Markings.

[Central Scrutiniser]

When I worked at the airlines, a few times I tried to plan a trip to Greenland, but a very small number of flights and weather/schedule problems meant I never got to go...bummer. Did Iceland a few times, a fantastic place to go, hightly recommend it.

[farmfriend]

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[Cool Guy]

BUMP! Warmer Climate in Greenland's Past ??

[marsh2]

I lived in Iceland for two years on the NATO base at Keflavik in the early 1970s. It is news to me that their stock was from Norway. I know that they thought their ancestors came from Denmark.

There is such a thing as a celtic viking. The islands off the immediate south coast of Iceland were populated by escaped slaves taken from raids on the coasts of Ireland and Scotland.

[Varda]

This article is a little confusing. Inuit means "people" and the Thule are the ancestors of todays Inuit but the Thule are latecomers to North America. The Dorset were in Greenland before the Norse. The Thule were from Asia and weren't descended either from the Vikings or the Dorset.

[blam]

"He believed the Vikings and northern aboriginal people intermarried to produce the unique Thule people, ancestors of the modern Eskimo. "

I read a report recently about a DNA study done on the Thule. It 100% ruled out the 'inter-marriage' theory.

[A. Pole]

Cross-sections of the GUS soil show the Vikings began their settlement by burning off birch brush to form a meadow. Over the next 300 to 400 years, the meadow soil steadily improved its nutritional qualities, showing that the Greenland Vikings weren't poor farmers, as McGovern and others have suggested. "At GUS, the amount of organic matter and the quality of soil increased and sustained farming for 400 years," said Schweger.

Hey, this is the proof that global warming was more advanced when Greenland was still a green land.

[shhrubbery!]

Schweger recalls vividly the day the team uncovered GUS. Smells frozen in permafrost for 500 years exploded into the air. "It stunk to high heavens," said Schweger. "There was no question about this being a farm."

Mmmmm, yes. Suddenly unfrozen poop. Having grown up on a farm, I can well imagine this.

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