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Viking-Age Skulls Reveal Widespread Disease and Infections - Medievalists.net

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Viking age. Not actual vikings mind, just their contemporaries.
Syphilis from all the raping?
- Isn't that a New World disease? Unless you're saying the Vikings raided Columbia (and made it back), it's at least 200 years too soon.
Some individuals showed evidence of chronic sinus or ear infections, which left visible traces in the surrounding bone structures. Osteoarthritis and various dental diseases were also common.
Owwwww