Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Lonely Guys

Turns out the Vikings were really sensitive guys.

Report: Vikings ‘abandoned Greenland due to loneliness and limited foods’

Research leader Niels Lynnerup, an anthropologist from the University of Copenhagen, told the media that he believes they may have had a wealth of food, but added, “perhaps they were just sick and tired of living at the ends of the earth and having almost nothing but seals to eat,” The Daily Mail reports.

Finally, the team said that it appears that women of child-bearing age may have led the exodus, as very few were found alongside the remains of their male counterparts in the region’s cemeteries.

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