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1
Myres,
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2
Keppie,
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3
Haywood,
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4
Ibid., pp.9–10.

5
Ibid., p.35.

6
Gribbin and Gribbin, ‘Climate and History: The Westvikings’ Saga.’ This geologically brief time in the sun came to an end in the sixteenth century, with the onset of a mini-ice age and a
drop
in temperature of two degrees, one of the results of which was the abandonment of the Greenland colony. See
Chapter 10
.