[goodcanadian]

There are other things you can burn: peat (probably not plentiful in Greenland), dried cow manure. Also, you wear furs and sleep under furs. Even my grandparents, living in a place with far more plentiful wood at a much later time in history, had stories of breaking the ice on the wash basin in the morning.

[Cougher]

I lived in a place where I had to break the ice in the toilet in the morning. And that was in England.