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Hanging on for 400 years hardly constitutes not having knowledge or desire how to survive there.
by interfixus 9y ago
Hanging on for 400 years hardly constitutes not having knowledge or desire how to survive there.
- avar 9y agoThey arrived in a period where the weather was particularly good, and proceeded to just practice the same sort of farming that they were used to in Scandinavia and Iceland. But there's no indication that they were actively contacting the native population to learn their hunting techniques, such as how to build kayaks and hunt marine mammals, or venture under the ice to gather mussels[1] etc. Which, to bring this thread around to the original point being made, doesn't suggest that "Greenland [was] uninhabitable", just that a population of people had arrived that didn't know how to make use of it. You might be able to transport a tribe from the middle of the Amazon to northern Greenland today and them not being able to survive, or the other way around. That doesn't mean that either place is uninhabitable. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0qGvC3vqaA