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The Juvfonna ice field at 1,850 metres (6070 feet) above sea level is seen in the Jotunheimen mountains in Norway September 9, 2010. Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings' ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains. REUTERS/Alister Doyle

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A 3,400-year-old leather shoe found in the mountains of south Norway after a record melt of ice, apparently linked to climate change is seen in this 2006 handout photo. Climate change is exposing reindeer hunting gear used by the Vikings' ancestors faster than archaeologists can collect it from ice thawing in northern Europe's highest mountains. REUTERS/Handout/Photo courtesy of Vegard Vike (NORWAY - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SCI TECH)

[muawiyah]

At 3500 years ago these are not strictly speaking "the Viking's ancestors" ~ more like "the Sa'ami ancestors of Vikings, the Norse not yet having made their way out of their flimsy wikiups somewhere in Western Asia".

There, that's so much better.

The link up between the Sa'ami and the Norse didn't really get going until the 900s when the Norse adopted a boat designed and used by the Sa'ami for use in mountain streams and the Arctic ocean.

The design was scaled up, given a neat dragon prow, and turned loose on a drowsing Europe!

Nothing was ever the same.