[bell-cot]

Article's far-too-long-for-HN Subtitle:

> New research suggests that medieval Icelanders were scavenging and likely even hunting blue whales long before industrial whaling technology

[tokai]

But the actual title is not too long at all

[bell-cot]

"How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth" is far more clicky than informative.

[BurningFrog]

Petty I know, but it actually bothers me that they took the whales up from the ocean, not "down".

[bell-cot]

Compared to English-language horrors like the right/rite/wright/write homophones, that is a fairly minor nitpick.

[tokai]

Doesn't matter. Its the title.