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Viking comb discovery excites archaeologists


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Perhaps no one has ever been as excited to see a comb as Danish archaeologist Søren Sindbæk.

He and a team of archaeologists from Aarhus University recently unearthed one at a historic Viking town called Ribe in Denmark.

Even more exciting, he says, the word "comb" is inscribed on one side while what amounts to the version of "to comb" is on the other.

For anyone who's not a career archaeologist or Viking history enthusiast, the find may seem trivial, but it could potentially tell historians about the birth of a Viking alphabet and, as a result, how the historic Viking Age rose to prominence.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/viking-age-ribe-comb-runes-alphabet-spd/

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Is there really such a thing as a Viking 'alphabet' or for that mater a Viking town, it's not a nationality, the Danish butcher and baker may have stayed at home and never went 'Viking'.

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