There, there, you're too young. :D
Am more geriatric than you!
It was actuallty Vikings who were the first Europeans to discover North America, well before Columbus mistook the Carribean for India. There's a viking settlement that they unearthed (literally, as its an earth house) in L'anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
You wonder if they thought Canada was too warm and just went home . . .
That's like the Dutch discovering Australia but thinking it a useless, inhospitable place, they went home.
I have never seen the west coast (well only a wee, tiny part of it) but from pics I've seen it's quite litteraly some of the most stunning scenery I have ever laid eyes on. I wonder what they were thinking. Probably about food and shelter and fresh water and inconsequential things like that. I wonder how they survived without chocolate.
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Anse_aux_Meadows
The only authenticated Viking settlement in North America outside Greenland, it was the site of a multi-year archaeological dig that found dwellings, tools and implements that verified its time frame. The settlement, dating more than 500 years before Christopher Columbus, contains the earliest European structures in North America. Named a World Heritage site by UNESCO, it is thought by many to be the semi-legendary 'Vinland' settlement of explorer Leif Ericson around 1000 AD.
The climate in Newfoundland then was significantly warmer than it is today. As recounted in the sagas, Leifur set forth from Greenland to search for the land Bjarni Herjólfsson had told him of. He found a land rich with grapes, salmon, and a frost free winter, and returned to harvest lumber to take back to tree-poor Greenland. L'Anse aux Meadows has been variously identified as: (a) the first camp made, (b) the camp made after fleeing hostile Skrælings, or (c) a camp not mentioned in the saga.
So dunadan, you may be right, it was warmer then in Newfoundland than it is now!
mina olen serbillus(composers whose name i can't spell) ja minulla peruna
mina olen serbillus(composers whose name i can't spell) ja minulla peruna
mina olen serbillus(composers whose name i can't spell) ja minulla peruna
Terve!
Do you mean Sibelius?
I would come as the author Zacharias Topelius. And the food would be "mumma".