Westviking : The Ancient Norse in Greenland and North America
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...For example, similar plant communities extend across the North Atlantic from Norway to southern Greenland....
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...Unlike the Viking colonization of the North Atlantic, they did not look for the same environment known at home....
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...For example, studies of Viking sagas indicate that crucial pieces of information—such as sailing times and topographic landmarks across the North Atlantic (Mowat 1965; Ingstad 1969)—can be remembered and remain accurate over a couple of hundred years, even while other aspects of the stories may change....
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...Recent detailed research into the Viking colonization of the North Atlantic region (McGovern and Perdikaris 2000; Simpson et al. 2001; Dugmore et al. 2007; McGovern et al. 2007) provides an important case example on the time depth of climatic understandings and their temporal, geographic, and social factors....
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...For example, using measurements of sodium (Na+) and chloride (Cl-) from the GISP2 ice core, Dugmore et al. (2007) developed a cumulative deviation plot of relative storminess in the North Atlantic (Figure 1)....
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