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The Norse built a trading post here and it's grown into a fair sized town in the last couple of generations. The people acknowledge Vinland's authority only in theory. | The Norse built a trading post here and it's grown into a fair sized town in the last couple of generations. The people acknowledge Vinland's authority only in theory. | ||
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Irish monastics succeeded in at least partially converting most of the natives.Pastoralism is the way of life for most of the island's people. Cows are held to be ''medicine animals'' by the natives. The early monks discovered a way to use cowpox to give partial immunity to smallpox, a fortuitous discovery that lead to the salvation of many native lives and conversion of many souls. The technique is freely disseminated, and is spreading to other settlements.The Vinland bishops have sometimes derided the islanders as ''cow cultists''. | Irish monastics succeeded in at least partially converting most of the natives.Pastoralism is the way of life for most of the island's people. Cows are held to be ''medicine animals'' by the natives. The early monks discovered a way to use cowpox to give partial immunity to smallpox, a fortuitous discovery that lead to the salvation of many native lives and conversion of many souls. The technique is freely disseminated, and is spreading to other settlements.The Vinland bishops have sometimes derided the islanders as ''cow cultists''. | ||