I was thinking that Greenland had regular contact with Norway and Denmark, not exactly the most isolated of areas. I would have expected that mainly after the settlement of the vinland theree would have been some outbreak.
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:351489 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
