Medieval Warm Period facts for kids
The Medieval Warm Period (MWP) or Medieval Climate Optimum was a time of unusually warm climate in the North Atlantic region. It lasted from about the tenth century to about the fourteenth century. In discussions of global warming this period is often mentioned.
Some refer to the event as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly because this term emphasizes that effects other than temperature were important.
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The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from an Icelandic marriage in 1408 but recorded later in Iceland, at Hvalsey Church, now the best-preserved of the Norse ruins.
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1690 copy of the 1570 Skálholt map, based on documentary information about earlier Norse sites in America.
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L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, today, with a reconstruction of a Viking settlement.
