[Ansteorra] Inca's in Norway???

[John Ruble]

Agnarr wrote:
> > I found this news article and it is something to think about if this turns out to be true.
> > 
> > http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=87357
> > 
> > Agnarr

Master Michael replied:

> It's sensation, not science. 
> 
> Body X, found in Scandinavia, has a particular deformation of the 
> skeleton. 
> 
> Bodies A-W, found in South America, have until now been the only 
> bodies in which that particular deformation has been seen. 
> 
> The journalist concludes that Body X must be from South America. 

And I add:

A little digging on the 'net gave something that supports a more
plausible explanation than the journalist's.  See:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1468202&blobtype=pdf

It discusses the frequency of this bone in various population groups.
The second most common place to find it is in Subsaharan Africa.  You
can also find it sometimes in Tibetans.

So our variant individual could have come from other locations at the
fringe of currently recognized Viking excursions.  This does not stop it
from being exciting.  We know they hit North Africa.  This might mean
they went farther south.  More likely, though, would be the idea that he
or she was a slave from farther south that was sold in North Africa and
then to a passing Scandinavian.

Master Ulf