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To: blam

####East Europeans have small teeth compared with the relatively large teeth of the Scandinavian####

They must never have heard of Count Dracula of Transylvania.


59 posted on 09/26/2007 5:16:29 PM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations.)
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To: puroresu; blam
Hate to pick up on this older thread, but it does have the big teeth/small teeth disussion and now Dracula.

Since the time this was posted I've been working on what you might call "Sa'ami Sightings" where little outlier groups of Sa'ami might have shown up outside of the Fenno-Scandian area during the period of Swedish hegemony in Europe.

That would be late 1500 to late 1600 period ~ about a century (crowned by total loss of everything and retreat to little Sweden).

I chanced on a reference to one or more Sa'ami languages having been spoken by people living high up in the Carpathian Mountains sometime prior to 1810 (which is when the Czar took over the Carpathians and sent in the Cossacks to chase out everybody).

The Swedes OWNED Poland for a considerable period during the Empire ~ they did not force conversion to Lutheran forms.

It is noted in may sources that the Swedes opened up the Carpathians to mining for gold, silver, iron, nickel, etc. all the metals they could find.

Their reason for doing so was obvious ~ the Carpathians are part of a chain of mountains that terminates in the West in Bohemia at roughly the place where the vast silver deposit was found that produced the Thaler (dollar). They had visions of the seam running East, so they sent in miners.

At that time in history most Scandinavian miners were Sa'ami.

BTW, the Sa'ami diet had improved tremendously due to contact with the Swedes and Norwegians that their teeth begin getting larger (generation by generation) and may well have continued to respond to diet and get even bigger.

I've wondered if the combination of LARGER TEETH and anomalous liver functions (porphyria) may have served as the inspiration for the vampires said to inhabit the Carpathian mountains.

BTW, these people disappeared for the most part with the withdrawal of the Swedes from the former Empire. This also coincided with one of the first rally large central and eastern European emigrations to America. I'm pretty sure most of the Sa'ami miners showed up in America within just a few years ~ followed closely by many of the Cossacks sent to clear them out of the mountains.

87 posted on 12/19/2010 12:23:52 PM PST by muawiyah
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