Essays on Norwegians

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The Fate of Greenland's Vikings by Dale Mackenzie Brown.

In 1721, Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary discovered that the Norse were no longer inhabiting the two settlements that they had established around 1000 A.D. Since then there has been many debates on the cause of their disappearance and decline. For long, the theories about their disappearance centered around the oral traditions of the Inuits. The Inuit tradition held that the demise of the Norse was due to the contact between the Inuit and the Norse which was often aggressive (Seaver 1996, 119). In recent years however, owing to expanding archaeological findings and other limited documentary evidence there have ...

Introduction

Marine oil business involves transport of oil or using marine means, either oceanic or by sea for sale or purchase at their destination. Most of the marine vessels that transport oil move in large numbers called a fleet. Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos once owned the two largest fleets of oil tankers in private hands. The fleets transported over five billion full gallons of crude oil. Thereafter, both of them became almost immeasurably wealthy and powerful. Of course, they continued to reinvest and carried on with their brotherly rivalry. They raced to outdo each other both in real estate ...