The Little Ice Age drove them out of Greenland, and I suppose the other
settlements collapsed right along with that.
>
>>I wonder why they didn't stay ?
>
>
>>> Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have discovered
>>>at least
>>>one more Viking settlement in North America:
>>>
>>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076r0sr
>>>
>>> This is quite a discovery. I knew from past readings that Viking
>>>artifacts have been found as far north as Ellsmere Island.
>>>
>>> There has also been recent speculation that a Chinese exploration fleet
>>>established a settlement on Cape Breton Island in the early 16th century.
>>
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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