Vikings, as envisioned by NC Wyeth, and their stowaway mice are now thought to be the earliest inhabitants on the Azores. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty They originated from the land of the ice and snow and the midnight sun– but still wound up in some pleasant locations.
This is the conclusion of scientists who have actually discovered proof to support the concept that the Vikings chose the clement coasts of the Azores a number of hundred years before the Portuguese arrived in 1427. Given that the Vikings are generally associated with
the frozen north, the claim is startling. Nonetheless, it is based on solid science, says a group of worldwide scientists who recently evaluated lakebed sediments in the Azores, an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic.
These were found to be abundant in natural
compounds that
are found in cow and sheep faeces. At the very same time, these samples were also found to include high levels of charcoal however were low in pollen from native trees.Read the rest of this article …