GREENLAND FOOD
Despite the many sketches of Greenland people having livestock, the diet of most Greenland farmhouses was over ninety percent fish, seal, and walrus. They ate two percent of their diet as caribou. The other eight- percent came from the domestic livestock. The more powerful landowners, who also owned the biggest boats, ate forty percent of their diet from fish, seal, and walrus. Caribou was forty percent of their diet. The powerful landowners may have received the larger share of the caribou as payment for shipping space on their boats.
Ingstad wrote about the milk products on a Greenland farm. (Ingstad, 1966) Malaurie wrote in detail about processing seal (by Eskimos). (Malaurie, 1982)
