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Ancient Emigrations To America

 

 

Emigration To North America

During the Little Ice Age Most of The Greenland population
 left the worsening cold for North America

 

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Bishop Gudmundur of Iceland c 1350 AD commented

on the extreme cold of the Little Ice Age:

 

       "This servant of God was Bishop of the country, which the Norsemen call Iceland.  That is an appropriate name for the Island, as there is plentiful ice both on land and sea.  On the sea there is sea ice, which completely fills up the northern harbors.  On the high mountains there are permanently frozen glaciers."  (Sigurdsson et. al. 1858)

       In 1360 The Icelandic Bishop, related:

"The inhabitants of Greenland of their own free will have abandoned the true faith ....and assimilated with the folk of America."

 

       In 1364, the author of the Inventio Fortunatae wrote of "...nearly 4000 people who 'entered the in drawing seas but who never returned."

 

       About 1350 on the shores of James Bay, Canada, someone speaking in Old Norse, produced simple drawings that revealed Viking history.

 

 

       On the wonderful slippery water. On the stone hard water, all went over the great tidal sea; over the furrowed pack ice.

 


I say to you it was a big crowd. 
In the darkness to the west all of them walk to Akomen.

 

 

A frozen sea facilitated the journey from Greenland to North America.  The population could then

arrive at America with sleds, perhaps drawn by dogs, and on foot.

 

 

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