That would be my guess. It was a pretty small group, but on the other hand...Leif was the first generation not from mainland Europe(I am not even 100% sure that he was born in Iceland or not without looking it up). His father, Eric the Red, was exiled for murder, so I would think they would still have the normal diseases continental Europeans carried...though they were a smaller group of people that didn't have the same population pressures, so maybe they were just healthier as a result?
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 3:33 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America Larry was asking why not though. My answer is pure speculation. Wouldn't you still expect a carrier or too? Dunno. Only thing I can think of is that the Greenland colony maybe was pretty isolated? It's kind of far from Europe and probably didn't get a lot of travelers. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Eric Roberts < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I don't recall any disease outbreaks when Leif got there...the Sagas > don't mention it and I don't remember anything offhand if there was an > evidence of an outbreak...so the short answer is no. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:dana.tier...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 1:16 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of > America > > > no epidemics going on there at the time they left? Also, didn't the > people who landed in Newfoundland and Quebec come from the Greenland settlements? > They would have been pretty isolated from disease vectors in Europe > (?) Just thinking out loud -- I don't know any more about this than I > just read. > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons > <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > I did a couple of archeological field schools in college. One was at > > L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I sincerely hope that the > > winters were mild there (they were not), because those huts were > > pretty miserable. While most of the six weeks were just scraping > > away as the dirt, I did find a couple of flint arrowheads at about > > the right depth for the time period. So at the very least there were > > locals near the Vikings campsite roughly around the same time as the Viking Sagas. > > > > One thing about that massive disease outbreak after Spain started > > sending ships to the west, why didn't something similar happen when > > the Vikings came over? > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Eric Roberts > > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > > > > > You should go to Chillicothe Maureen... You can still hear the > > > voices echoing... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] > > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:32 PM > > > To: cf-community > > > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of > > > America > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Eric Roberts > > > <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > >> Chillicothe, OH. Other mounds in their culture include the > > >> mounds just east of St. Louis, MO in Cahokia, IL. > > > > > > I visited the Cahokia mounds about 15 years ago. Beautiful spot, > > > but spiritually dead. When those folks left they took everything > > > with them, even their power. > > > > > > The Rock Eagle Mound in east Georgia, however, is still so > > > powerful that > > the > > > air around it sings. It would have been magical to attend one of > > > the ceremonies there > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351482 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
