04-08-2015, 03:27 AM
Hi aRM
There never were any land animals here that came on their own accord other than the fox. I don't know if the walrus was extinct before people settled here but its ivory is long since depleted. And btw the ice age ended more than 10.000 years ago, just few glaciers left that are melting away and will be gone shortly.
The beech I mentioned was grown somewhere around the Baltic sea probably Sweden or Finland. Our own birch woods are long gone, burnt down to clear land for agriculture and then erosion, but some of it was used to smelt iron. We were self sufficient with iron for the first few hundred years and stopped making our own as cheaper and better iron became available from Germany.
As to my English a spellING checker makes much difference.
There never were any land animals here that came on their own accord other than the fox. I don't know if the walrus was extinct before people settled here but its ivory is long since depleted. And btw the ice age ended more than 10.000 years ago, just few glaciers left that are melting away and will be gone shortly.
The beech I mentioned was grown somewhere around the Baltic sea probably Sweden or Finland. Our own birch woods are long gone, burnt down to clear land for agriculture and then erosion, but some of it was used to smelt iron. We were self sufficient with iron for the first few hundred years and stopped making our own as cheaper and better iron became available from Germany.
As to my English a spellING checker makes much difference.
Flosi Guðmundsson