ABSTRACT
According to the noted U.S. scholar Jared Diamond, the Vikings arrived in Iceland in 870 and a mere sixty years later they had a choice to make: they could cling to the dysfunctional lifestyle they had brought with them from Europe and allow their small society to collapse or they could change their culture and themselves. The good news is that what is learned can be unlearned. Those Vikings chose to change and their culture survived. Once they figured out that their pigs and sheep were ruining the soil, they acquired—in other words, learned—brand new ways of thinking, acting, and living.
