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In a message dated 7/3/03 12:03:21 AM, Bent writes:
<< Unfortunately, we can't ask the Vikings that were passing through the
same "interesting ways". Too many vanished on the dangerous legs
between Iceland and Greenland as well as in the Labrador Sea.
Keep trawlering in safe waters. >>
Bent,
According to the curator at the Fram museum in Oslo, about 25% of the Viking
boats that attempted the crossing from Iceland to Greenland were lost. The
trip from the Norwegian coast to Iceland was a bit easier, both because of the
warmer Gulf Stream waters and the possibility of taking refuge in the Shetlands.
Still about 10% of the boats didn't make it. The Vikings were brave folk.
Larry Z
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