"Inger E Johansson" wrote:
Floyd,
you are abusing me. Since you obviously aren't familiar at all with what was
common and what wasn't in Scandinavia before 1500 AD, there is no use
discussing it with you at all. You simply have no clue. Let's leave it at
that and don't continue to abuse me. You ARE the one who hasn't done your
homework when you believe that what's common in other parts of the world
must be common here in Scandinavia and especially among Scandinavians in
Greenland.

Good Night until you done your homework and at least send valid OBS valid
contra-argument from Scandinavia and Greenland.

Plonk

Inger E

No wood available to Greenland Inuit people! What a hoot. The
mainstay of their culture is a pair of skin boats made with
wooden frames, and you say they have no use for wood working
tools...

Looks like *you* had best be doing some homework.

You all ever heard of drift wood?

Get the drift yet?

It *still* hasn't sunk in yet, has it!



3d. ... The country looked pleasant,
with many berry-bearing plants and bushes. There was,
likewise, *plenty* *of* *drift*-*wood* *all* *along* *the* *coast*; *not* *the*
*large* *Greenland* *timber*, *but* *small* *trees* *and* *roots*, evidently
carried out of the great rivers of the Ungava by the ice. We
had, of course, fire-wood enough, without robbing the graves
of their superstitious furniture. Our Esquimaux pitched ...

http://www.mun.ca/rels/morav/texts/ungava/chapter8.html


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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)