Why do the Vikings leave Greenland?

One of the main reasons is that the Vikings were fed up with seal meat. This interesting hypothesis appeared in a recent study in which scientists sought to explain why the descendants of the Vikings abandoned the land of Greenland , an icy island between the Arctic and the West. Yang, in the middle of the 15th century.

Previously, scientists believed that the ice age, famine and conflicts with the Inuit made the Vikings return to their ancestral lands in Norway, Iceland (Iceland) and Denmark.

However, a group of Danish and Canadian scientists said that the difficulties in life, including psychological problems, caused the Vikings to leave Greenland after five centuries of settling here, not hunger and disease.

Niels Lynnerup, a medical and forensic anthropologist at the University of Copenhagen, thinks that if the climate in Greenland becomes even colder at that time, the Vikings still have plenty of food to use. He said: 'It is possible that they are bored of living in the end of the world as well as just eating seal meat.'

Greenland - where used to be Viking homes.

To test, scientists conducted isotopic analysis on hundreds of bone fragments of humans and animals found on the island to know how the inhabitants of the island had a habit of eating. .

The results showed that when the warm time of the year ended, the main farmers' diet and Viking farm owners were seafood. They hunted seals because they appeared abundantly on Greenland's beaches following their annual migration journey.

According to Jan Heinemeier, human relations researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark, the ratio of seal meat in Viking diets has increased from 30% to 80% over time.

In addition, until the middle of the 13th century, the weather became more severe, the temperature of the summer fell sharply, the storms became more intense and the winter became extremely cold. Fodder is also less.

When the commuter trains between Greenland and Norway and Iceland stop working, the feeling of being isolated and isolated from the outside world is much more overwhelming to the islanders.

Scientists have hardly found any remains of young women in the excavation area, suggesting that women have left the land.

Maybe this is the "drop of water" that makes the Vikings no longer want to stay in Greenland.