Viking Mice

[Rev.Cambeul]

Viking Explorers Carried Fuzzy Stowaways, New Study Finds

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer | 19 March 2012

http://www.livescience.com/19146-viking-explorers-mice-stowaways.html

Between the eighth and 10th centuries, Vikings were exploring and spreading into Greenland, Iceland and Newfoundland. Now, a new study finds that these notoriously fierce people brought with them some fluffy stowaways: house mice.

Vikings appear to have brought the house mice with them when they arrived in Iceland and Greenland, according to a genetic analysis of the tiny rodents. The descendents of these Viking mice can still be found today in Iceland, though the Greenland mice died out and were replaced by their Danish cousins.

"Human settlement history over the last 1,000 years is reflected in the genetic sequence of mouse mitochondrial DNA," said study researcher Eleanor Jones of the University of York and Uppsala University in a statement, referring to DNA found in mitochondria, or the energy-producing centers of cells. "We can match the pattern of human populations to that of the house mice."

Like many explorers, Vikings brought along livestock on their expeditions. On such journeys, uninvited tagalongs are inevitable. Jones and her colleagues conducted genetic testing on modern mice in Iceland, Greenland and northwest Newfoundland where Vikings are known to have explored. They also tested old mouse bones found at archaeological sites in Greenland and Iceland.

They found that the house mouse subspecies Mus musculus domesticus showed up in Iceland from Norway or the North British Isles in the 10th century — matching the time period of the Vikings' arrival. From there, the Vikings and their mice went to Greenland.

Today, the descendents of these Viking mice are still found in Iceland. But for reasons unknown, Mus musculus domesticus would later die out in Greenland, the researchers report Monday (March 19) in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. Today, the mice in Greenland are Mus musculus muscularis, a subspecies that likely came from Denmark during expeditions after A.D. 1500 or later, after the country colonized Greenland in the 1700s.

The researchers found no evidence of Viking mice in Newfoundland, despite the likely presence of a Viking settlement there around A.D. 1000. It's possible that the Vikings did inadvertently bring mice to the area, the researchers suggest, but the mice may have died out when the Vikings moved on. Mice can sometimes survive in wild populations, the researchers wrote, but they often depend on human villages or cities as their habitat. Today's Newfoundland mice are a subspecies that spread all across the world during the 1700s on British sailing ships.



Comment:

Perhaps the Viking Mice were eaten by the Viking Kittens?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApxnAr6pRt0

[VanDamme]

I have always been fascinated about how the Greenland vikings died out. I saw a documentary that pretty much blamed Christianity for their demise. You have the best of the White Race as pagans discovering and exploring the new world from the year 1000 onwards. Then, following the conversion to Christianity and a deterioration of climate in the 1340s the Greenlanders tried to maintain their agricultural lifestyles as sanctioned by the church.
A comparison of extinction period midden refuse shows the eskimos had a surplus of seal, caribou and fish but the Norse were starving..eating dogs etc. The only explanation being that the church had prohibited hunting and fishing as "eskimo and pagan"thus barring the Norse from adaptation or use of real survival techniques.

Secrets of the Dead (2000): 2. The Lost Vikings

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

I heard Erik the Red's wife was Christian and she basicly made him convert. The Norsemen traded with the Eskimoes. The Eskimoes gave them seal skin leather and objects made out of bone.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_aliens
Do you believe in Aliens? A lot of people have seen and expereinces "nordic Aliens" . If the Norse Greenlanders just dissapeared.. where did they go to? It's even said the 3rd reich SS occultic division even tried to make contact with these Nordic aliens.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread60055/pg1

"Although Nordics are humanoid and externally almost identical to humans. There are subtle differences in the Nordic alien physiology, and most of them are based on the living conditions that they have grown up in. Their planets are extremely hot and dry, and have a low oxygen content in the atmosphere. They have a larger lung capacity than humans and have a copper based blood in order to carry oxygen more efficiently. The eyes are protected by inner lids and can allow them to see into the ultraviolet range of the spectrum. They have only 28 teeth, as they lack a back pair of molars. Their heads are longer than humans. The brain case is about .2 mm thicker and the bone is harder. The brain is the same as the human brain as far as structure and size is concerned, except for the midbrain area, where there are functions that allow telepathic and telekinetic skills. It explains the psionic powers of the Nordics. The skin allows moisture to be drawn from the air as well as moisture to penetrate. The heart beats at around 242 beats per minute, and the average blood pressure is 80 systolic and 40 diastolic. They have extremely dilated blood vessels. The heart is located where the human liver would be. The cartilage that would protect a human heart extends down 3.5cm further in the Nordic in order to protect this structure. Blood cells are biconvex in contrast to the concave cells of humans. Kidney type functions only allow about half the liquid consumed to be excreted. The rest is evidently put back into the system. Urine is thick with minerals and appears in color and texture to freshly pumped crude oil. Faeces are dry pellets with all moisture removed. The adult Nordic can regulate the amount of adrenaline in their body. They have no pineal gland. Nordic females are capable of being impregnated at any time, but the males are capable of impregnation about once a year. The period of incubation is three to five months..."

Nordic Female Extraterrestrial Alien Sumerian.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

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