[apoger]

>Scandanivia is either cold 1 or 2 (Vanheim/Jotunheim). It certainly doesn't produce 40% less output per piece of land than England.

A> Cold-1 would be 20% with my mod.

B> I'd say the Vikings would disagree with you on the farming versus raiding/migrating to England example.

Without modern technologies life in the cold pretty much sucked. Yes people lived in the cold, but not the massively productive ones. The great empires didn't rise from the desert either. There's a reason for this.