XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 11/01/2026 05:39, rbowman wrote:   
   > He tells a plausible story. In 'Collapse' Jared Diamond claims that one of   
   > the reasons for the abandonment of Greenland along with climate change was   
   > an irrational reluctance of the Norse to eat fish. Excuse me? He bases   
   > that on the lack of fish bones in the middens. I've never had it but I   
   > think the process of producing hákarl might dissolve the bones.   
      
   They are probably so hungry they ate the bones as well..   
      
   The 'Norse' grew up on fish. One visit to sweden or Denmark will show   
   1001 ways to prepare 'herring'   
      
   A lot less pork chicken and beef on the menu.   
      
      
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   “Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of   
   other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance"   
      
       -  John K Galbraith   
      
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