wrote:
Well, the descendants of the original settlers are still living in
Iceland, farming it and living a pretty good life. They haven´t left
at all.

they had a few close calls though.... (just finished reading "Collapse"
by Jared Diamond -- you might want to have a look) --

just to get back on topic (well sortof): interesting how often
threads on this newsgroup tend to digress; my theory is that pilots
are folks with lots of varied interests :-)

--Sylvain