Sorry to double post, but the suggestion that the Greenland colony refused to exploit natural resources like whales, fish and seals because of cultural prejudice and out of contempt for the Inuits is nonsense. Here is a quote from Jaqueline Simpson's, "Everyday Life in the Viking Age""sea birds were shot or snared, and their eggs collected; there were herring and cod in the seas....whales were harpooned, and seals were speared or netted"The food sources supposedly scorned by the Greenland colonists were in fact established staples of the Viking diet. So whatever prevented the Vikings colonists from exploiting these resources in Greenland in most certainly was not "cultural prejudice". Perhaps it was the ever present prospect of small fishing parties getting ambushed and having to remove bone tipped Inuit arrows from foolhardy Viking asses? Edited by: badmendicant at: 6/17/05 8:31 am