Could the cold kill off Greenland's colonists?
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Colonists? Now or 'then'?....The first Greenland colonists were from Iceland and Norway. They had a thriving "colony" for over three hundred years. Climate change and the European wars, left them in the background of thought and interest of the "Mother countries", which changed crowns often. They died off from slow starvation. They were "forgotten" even by the church. No ships came with trade goods or grain, etc. or animals to replenish the stock they had. Their trade exchange had been furs and ivory (from walrus's). The climate change froze out their crops. Their livestock died, then they died. Fishing kept them alive for a while, but the vitamin deficiencies took its toll. Then the cold. They were gone by the mid thirteen hundreds. There is a theory that some mixed with the native Inwit (Eskimo) peoples and that explains some of the differences in physiognomy and some cultural differences between the Greenland Eskimo and those of mainland Canada. But it is only theory.
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