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Originally Posted by gunnut
It did work well though. The colony flourished for almost 400 years before it died out in the mid 15th century. There are archeological proof of the colonists diet consist largely of farm animals. Can't feed farm animals with ice. So they either imported grass, or the land provided grass.
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I know they had grassland to work with, but it was also never really enough either volume-wise or nutritionally to support the herds. I wouldn't really say it worked well. They had to depend a lot on imports. I don't think the inhabitants of those colonies ever exceeded 50 or more individuals, and there's also some debate as to whether they were year-round settlements or summer fishing villages. A four-hundred-year time frame seems a bit long, too. My impression was a few decades. It's been 12-years since I studied the subject, so it's a bit fuzzy, and you could very well be spot-on right on all counts from more recent studies. Still, for Norwegians to pack-up and call it quits, it says a lot on how rough the realestate was. lol
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