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Old 22nd December 2007, 11:59 PM   #1
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Originally Posted by ausjulius
vikings didnt have a puukko, the puukko came from the far east and siberia ,,


the knife in the pick ,, looks to be baoan ... a moslem mongolian ethnic group from china..

language and culture is mixed between uzbek and mongols.. and some others
The Puuko as i understand it is the signature knife of Northern Europe, specifically Finland. That being the cased i guess my reference was a bit of a stretch since the Vikings, i believe, were a little to the west....but the far east? That seems a little off to me.

Well, at least according to Wiki the word is from the Finnish language, but can also apply to a Norwegian knife as well so perhaps my Viking reference isn't too far a field.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/puukko

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