Viking Wintermute?

[Valuable Hunting Knife]

I take it we are ok to post links...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/08/viking-runestone-may-allude-to-extreme-winter-study-says

 

[MarrowStone]

Cool stuff. I like the inclusion of a solar storm and eclipse on top of a 3 year winter. It makes it feel more like The Long Dark's premise. 

 

500+ years later the viking age WAS actually put to an end partly because of a mini ice age making further colonization of Greenland and the Americas difficult; however, a lot of other factors play in like diminishing trade and trouble with the natives. 

 

[Valuable Hunting Knife]

On 1/12/2020 at 12:09 AM, MarrowStone said:

Cool stuff. I like the inclusion of a solar storm and eclipse on top of a 3 year winter. It makes it feel more like The Long Dark's premise. 

 

500+ years later the viking age WAS actually put to an end partly because of a mini ice age making further colonization of Greenland and the Americas difficult; however, a lot of other factors play in like diminishing trade and trouble with the natives. 

 

glad you liked it.  The book 'True North' by Gavin Francis might also be of interest.