[FairOpinion]

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[FairOpinion]

Interesting, but bizarre.

One would think that they would have had more sense, than to damage their own teeth.

[RegulatorCountry]

Or, in a fit of early Eurocentrism, aboriginal tribes in North America adopted the custom from Vikings.

[Bull Market]

First the discovery that vikings invented the pizza, and now this. My people continue to break new ground!!!

[satchmodog9]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558046/posts

I guess this means the Chinese are full of crap.

[dr_who_2]

Who bit whom?

[goresalooza]

Groovin' on a sunny Sunday afternoon........

[Katya]

"Ms. Arcini details the horizontal etchings across the front teeth of about 25 young men whose remains were found at several Viking Age burial sites in Sweden and Denmark."

Early grillz?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FairOpinion.

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[stubernx98]

OK, what about the Keninston Runestone found in Minnasota?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** -- before repeated clashes with natives, whom the Vikings called "skraelings," forced the newcomers to abandon their settlement. ***

Inresting point here, the Indian wars began when the Vikings shared their food, including MILK with the Indians.
The Indians could not digest the milk, became sick and thought they had been poisoned so attacked the Vikings.

[Theoden]

There was another article on this posted a few days ago. I want to point out that these are Swedish Vikings, and the Swedes sailed East into Novgorod, Kiev, and Constantinople. They never sailed to North America, it was the Norwegian Vikings under Leif Ericksen. This is just coincidence.

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Or, two groups of people had a similar idea. Does there always have to be a single-source for human customs?