:argh!:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/archaeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned-greenland-a-876626.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/1Xj9KbkB
QuoteFor years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes.
TL;DR they didn't like eating seals all day, every day.
Quote from: Cain on January 16, 2013, 02:38:32 PM
:argh!:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/archaeologists-uncover-clues-to-why-vikings-abandoned-greenland-a-876626.html#spRedirectedFrom=www&referrrer=http://t.co/1Xj9KbkB
QuoteFor years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes.
TL;DR they didn't like eating seals all day, every day.
As opposed to the seals that Icelanders eat?
:lulz: So basically, living there was shitty and they didn't like it, so they moved.
No they were all WIPED OUT because they CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES.
Quote from: Cain on January 16, 2013, 06:15:41 PM
No they were all WIPED OUT because they CUT DOWN ALL THE TREES.
:lulz:
I think the question shouldn't be why they left but why they put up with it for 500 years. :lulz: