Hidden Viking trade route emerges from melting ice in Norway

Science Magazine ^ | April 15, 2020 | Andrew Curry

[CheshireTheCat]

In 2011, hikers in the snowy mountains of central Norway came across a 1700-year-old wool tunic, likely belonging to a Roman-era hypothermia victim. As ice in the region has continued to melt, researchers have made hundreds of additional finds. Now, archaeologists have made their biggest discovery yet: a lost Viking trade route that may have been used for hundreds of years to ferry everything from butter to reindeer antlers to far-flung European markets.

[Western Phil]

No, the Vikings back then were REAL men. They made their own trade routes on top of ice and during severe snow storms.

Kind of like the Canadian ice truckers?

[SunkenCiv]

Ooh! Thanks SteveH! Someone I knew on a different forum (those days were years ago) told about his Scandinavian ancestors who had sailed to eastern Asia via the Arctic Ocean, during the Medieval Warming! BTW, this was interesting as well:

In 2011, hikers in the snowy mountains of central Norway came across a 1700-year-old wool tunic, likely belonging to a Roman-era hypothermia victim.

[meadsjn]

Ice ages, global warming, over-population (in Norway, mind you), global trade, complex economies, pagan religion — little bit of something for all the commie retards in this article.

[Farmerbob]

“I very much like Vikings on the History channel”

Try ‘the last kingdom’ on netflix. 10x better

[dennisw]

I am going to watch season 3—— Last Kingdom

[Ragnar54]

' The team identified dozens of piled stone cairns marking a path up from the valley below, and the foundations of a shelter just below the ridgeline. “It dawned on us that this was a mountain pass,” from a river valley nearby to high mountain pastures, Piloe says. “It’s the first time we have a site like this in northern Europe.”

The radiocarbon dates show that the pass came into regular use around 300 C.E. Locals used year-round snow cover to navigate the ridge’s jagged rocks, the researchers argue today in Antiquity. '

It seems like the "high mountain pastures" would not have been very useful with the "year-round snow cover". Perhaps he snow cover wasn't so "year round" during the Medieval Warm Period?