Revealing the Mystery of loss Vikings in Greenland

"Nothing indicates that (the Scandinavian nation) or the Norse disappeared as a result of natural disasters. Even if the case, probably because they were bored with eating seals at the end of the world," said Niels Lynnerup of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, which lays the mystery The Scandinavian disappearance of Greenland.

Lynnerup added, indicating that the youth in particular, leaving Greenland. Resulted in decreasing the number of women's productive and conditions do not support the growth of the population.

Results of analysis of findings framework -suku nation Vikings from Scandinavia who work as farmers, traders, and best known as perompak- revealed that 80 percent of the food they consume is aniing sea.

Findings also help to answer the mystery disappearance of the Scandinavian nation is often called the Norse who settled in Greenland in 500 years ago. Their loss is not caused by an inability to adapt to the cold environment.

By analyzing the carbon isotope ratio in the 80 bones belonging to the Scandinavian nation, the researchers concluded that a large proportion of Viking diet comes from seafood. With consumption of seals reached between 50 to 80 per cent in the 14th century.

"Although traditionally the Scandinavian nation known as farmers, they were able to adapt quickly to the Arctic environment and have the opportunity to hunt with a unique way. As long as they live in Greenland, these people consume seals gradually," said researcher January Heinemeier from Aarhus University.

Scandinavian nation in early transplantation brings agricultural commodities and domestic animals such as cattle, sheep, and pigs from Iceland to Greenland. However, the settlers have a new challenge when faced with an increasingly harsh living conditions. Also face the ice age that led to hunger and forcing them to settle elsewhere.

Another researcher who is also a curator at the National Museum of Denmark, Jette Arneborg, explain, from time to time the Vikings the less they raise animals. "So it's identity as a farmer actually leads to a mental picture of yourself rather than actual reality," said Arneborg.

The results of another analysis of the framework of the Vikings also showed signs that slowly these people began to leave Greenland. As evidence found on the tombs which existed from the late place Scandinavian nation. Where shows that fewer and fewer young women are found.

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