Viking sagas read through the lens of climate change

EurekAlert ^ | March 9, 2005

[TC Rider]

No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[fanfan]

The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

[TC Rider]

No, no -- it's just resting.

[fanfan]

All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...

(owner hits the cage)

[TC Rider]

There, he moved!

[fanfan]

No, he didn't, that was you hitting the cage!

[TC Rider]

I never!!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 3/10/2005.

Thanks Squawk 8888. I just added this to the Catastrophism catalog, and am going to ping it out of sheer stubbornness.

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[SunkenCiv]

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan Paperback	Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian M. Fagan	The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian M. Fagan

[tet68]

“Ere, E’s just pining for the Fjords.”

[21twelve]

Thanks for the ping. I think it was back in 1100 A.D.(?) or so when the Vikings abandoned Iceland(?). They were farmers by that time, and Christian. When the farms died off because of the cooling, the native Eskimos tried to get the Vikings to join in their hunts. But the Vikings wouldn’t join because of all the pre-hunt rituals to the pagan gods. The Vikings died off and/or left.

At least that is one theory I saw on TV. Sounds plausible.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx for the ping SunkenCiv !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[bigheadfred]

I’m going to have to check to see if I can get any of those books on a library loan.

I’ve read all six of the books the library has about as many times as I can stand.

[SunkenCiv]

Greenland, not Iceland. Greenland was still Viking into the 13th c, the cold got worse, and more importantly, the ships stopped coming from Europe. No trees on Greenland to build boats. The population was trapped. One possibility raised in the 1980s (hmm, maybe 1970s) was that German corsairs arrived there and carried off the entire remaining colony.

[SunkenCiv]

The library in my town burned down.

Destroyed both books.

One wasn’t even colored yet.

[old joke alert, comes too late to prevent the joke]

[21twelve]

Thanks for the corrections. The other one I always get messed up on is “Was Greenland really frozen in the old days, and Iceland was green as the Vikings were trying to be tricky, or vice-versa?”

[SunkenCiv]

And Eric the RED discovered Greenland — IOW, I think they just did that to piss us off.