I don't recall any disease outbreaks when Leif got there...the Sagas don't mention it and I don't remember anything offhand if there was an evidence of an outbreak...so the short answer is no.
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 1:16 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America no epidemics going on there at the time they left? Also, didn't the people who landed in Newfoundland and Quebec come from the Greenland settlements? They would have been pretty isolated from disease vectors in Europe (?) Just thinking out loud -- I don't know any more about this than I just read. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > I did a couple of archeological field schools in college. One was at > L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I sincerely hope that the winters > were mild there (they were not), because those huts were pretty > miserable. While most of the six weeks were just scraping away as the > dirt, I did find a couple of flint arrowheads at about the right depth > for the time period. So at the very least there were locals near the > Vikings campsite roughly around the same time as the Viking Sagas. > > One thing about that massive disease outbreak after Spain started > sending ships to the west, why didn't something similar happen when > the Vikings came over? > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You should go to Chillicothe Maureen... You can still hear the > > voices echoing... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Maureen [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:32 PM > > To: cf-community > > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of > > America > > > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Eric Roberts > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Chillicothe, OH. Other mounds in their culture include the mounds > >> just east of St. Louis, MO in Cahokia, IL. > > > > I visited the Cahokia mounds about 15 years ago. Beautiful spot, > > but spiritually dead. When those folks left they took everything > > with them, even their power. > > > > The Rock Eagle Mound in east Georgia, however, is still so powerful > > that > the > > air around it sings. It would have been magical to attend one of > > the ceremonies there > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351471 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
