Stone Age Scandinavians unable to digest milk

Uppsala University ^ | Apr 1, 2010 | Unknown

[rlmorel]

"...Go ahead. Ask us about our milk. Do you feel lucky? Well...do ya...punk?"

[WesternCulture]

The Vikings, on the other hand, consumed large amounts of milk. Excavations have shown that some Viking farms housed up to 100 dairy cattle.

Keeping cows at a large scale was common, not only in Denmark and southern Sweden (which is the warmest and most fertile part of Scandinavia), but even in Iceland were some farms had up to 60 cows.

So, if the people that inhabited Scandinavia during the Stone Age were lactose intolerant, something drastic evidently must have happened between that time and the Viking Age.

[rmlew]

Excavations? My second cousin is married to an ethnic Swede whose family has run a dairy farm for 1000 years. (Supposedly some ancestor went a viking {plundering} and bought land, cattle, and a wife with the proceeds.)

[Woebama]

Heh, an anti-dowry. Buy a wife. Ancient Israel had that as well. It was assumed a female slave was a wife. Meanwhile I think wives from “good” families came with dowries of some sort.

[WesternCulture]

“My second cousin is married to an ethnic Swede whose family has run a dairy farm for 1000 years”

- Fascinating.

Even though most farms in Scandinavia are way younger, there are certain ones that old.

Before there were Lutheran warrior kings like Gustavus Adolphus, inventors like Nobel and Nordic IT success stories like Nokia, Skype and Ericsson, there were free men running their own farms all over Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland.

Perhaps this is off topic, but I claim there is a strong connection between the overall success of Scandinavian business life of today and Scandinavian agricultural history, which differs a lot from that of France, Italy, Japan, Germany and other industrialized countries where the common man more or less used to be a slave prior to the days of industrialization.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Little Bill]

There was a thread related to Scandinavia and those that originally settled the place as opposed to those that came later. Someone posted, referring to earlies having an aversion to those slimey things with fins, fish, never heard of that. You?

[colorado tanker]

Well, if we can't drink milk, I guess we'll have to . . . .

[rdl6989]

Got Milk? Oops sorry. (runs and hides!)

[SunkenCiv]

I just skimmed this article, maybe I should read it in entire.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s the ticket.