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To: ozzymandus

No timber to make boats.


69 posted on 11/29/2007 4:34:47 PM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: mamelukesabre
THE LAST VIKING (LINK)

60-Foot Nookta Canoe, Nitinat Lake, southwestern Vancouver Island

70 posted on 11/29/2007 6:46:14 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Fair dinkum!)
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To: mamelukesabre

I’ve heard that. It’s part of the “they all died” theory. I don’t think it’s relevant as the Greenlanders weren’t isolated from other Norse societies. There aren’t any trees on Iceland, either, and they had boats.


74 posted on 11/30/2007 11:28:49 AM PST by ozzymandus
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