"climatic difficulties manifested in Greenland in the thirteenth and fourteenth century, were felt throughout Europe as a series of unusual events and emergencies. Coast were devastated by the Dutch storm surges. Old Icelandic chronicles report that during the winter the first years of the fourteenth century, from Norway to Denmark comes in contact with the ice a pack of wolves. Froze the entire Baltic Sea between Sweden and making the Danish islands of ice became a bridge. By the frozen sea traveled on foot and in vehicles of many travelers, and inns were built on the ice for their room. It seems that the freezing Baltic path of storms moved in the belt of the emerging South-Icelandic lows. The result of the storms were unusual in southern Europe, crop failure, hunger and poverty. Icelandic literature abounds with tales of explosions and other violent volcanic disasters, as happened in nature during the fourteenth century. "
R. Carson:" The sea around us, "
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