Pay attention Class, with our latest B&K page we learn a bit of backstory – Fun factoids about Vikings that you never cared to know… Were they the fierce berserker seafarers of legend, or just inept land speculators?? …and do Bunz & Katz really care?
Well, I guess that’s one bit of the beach that is never crowded… Not only are the present occupants a bit clannish and volatile, but the noise level is intolerable also…
To help Bunz out a bit. The Vikings were in Greenland during warm weather. It wasn’t hard then to grow crops. Then the “little ice age” happened. It got colder and harder to grow crops. The ice layer built up to such an extent that Greenland was depressed a bit into the sea.
The Vikings did adapt, fishing the sea [more] for their food. However the change in sea level left large patches of dry ground farther from the original settlements. The sum of these effects likely caused the Vikings to abandon their settlements. But that is speculation since there just is no surviving record of the abandonment time.
Pendell’s “Why Civilizations Self-Destruct” posits that the Little Ice Age required the Greenland Vikings to change their culture too rapidly for them to successfully adapt, they had used up any wood suitable for shipbuilding, and that they literally starved out in place. A bit of warning for the rest of us.
Should anyone be needing a February Desk top Calendar, our choice this month is from 2011 which was also the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, as Kelly and Victoria got into some kinky fun…
Just click on the pix to take you to the download page…
Pay attention Class, with our latest B&K page we learn a bit of backstory – Fun factoids about Vikings that you never cared to know… Were they the fierce berserker seafarers of legend, or just inept land speculators?? …and do Bunz & Katz really care?
Somewhere, an opera just ended.
I think it crashed and burned!
Well, I guess that’s one bit of the beach that is never crowded… Not only are the present occupants a bit clannish and volatile, but the noise level is intolerable also…
To help Bunz out a bit. The Vikings were in Greenland during warm weather. It wasn’t hard then to grow crops. Then the “little ice age” happened. It got colder and harder to grow crops. The ice layer built up to such an extent that Greenland was depressed a bit into the sea.
The Vikings did adapt, fishing the sea [more] for their food. However the change in sea level left large patches of dry ground farther from the original settlements. The sum of these effects likely caused the Vikings to abandon their settlements. But that is speculation since there just is no surviving record of the abandonment time.
Pendell’s “Why Civilizations Self-Destruct” posits that the Little Ice Age required the Greenland Vikings to change their culture too rapidly for them to successfully adapt, they had used up any wood suitable for shipbuilding, and that they literally starved out in place. A bit of warning for the rest of us.
Should anyone be needing a February Desk top Calendar, our choice this month is from 2011 which was also the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, as Kelly and Victoria got into some kinky fun…
Even though Vicki has a scared look on her face, I’m betting she whines up enjoying it!