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ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER OLD VIKING PARLOR GAME

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Harvard archaeologists have discovered in Ireland an ancient Viking parlor game that no one knows how to play, and which is supposed to date back about 1000 years. It was found in a Tenth Century lake dwelling in Balinderry by E. A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology.

Experts think it is some kind of cribbage game. It consists of a smooth board, about nine inches square, set inside an intricately carved frame. On the inner surface 49 holes have been bored and around the center one there is a double ring resembling a child's drawing of a circular road.

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