SC - favorite knife to use was: serrated knive blades

[Decker, Terry D.]

> My favorite knife, which I use for everything but opening cardboard boxes,
> is an ulu, the "Eskimo Women's Knife".  <snipped> I know the design is
> ancient (they made them out of stone before steel was imported to the
> northlands), but I don't know if such a knife was used in Europe.  
> 
> --Kareina (only two days behind on list-reading now!)
> 
The ulu is some form is common to all circumpolar peoples, so yes it was
known in Europe, just not necessarily the parts we would be traveling in.
The ulu, in its current form, is at least 3000 years old.

Bear
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