XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:44:55 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:   
      
   > rbowman  writes:   
   >>On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:03:27 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:   
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   >>> People just kept heading west, and when they got to England they had   
   >>> to stop.   
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   >>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.   
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   > One word.   Lutefisk.   
      
   Butter, lots of butter.  Big problem if the cows died off and there was no   
   butter.  It shows up around here at Christmas time. I've been told by   
   knowledgeable people Norwegians in the US eat lutefisk and Norwegians in   
   Norway eat frozen pizza.   
      
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