We did not have that mutch bronze in Scandinavia, but we had a broze-age. Most likely because of traveling salesmen from the mediteranean area, most likely coming for our amber. As you see on this rock carvings from Tønsberg, norway, a picture of a catamaran- style boat unlike anything we had up here. And by trade…

Think how rare something like a true blue bead would have been in Western Europe at that time - we don't have sapphires or lapis or turquoise and the chemistry of creating synthetic blues using copper or cobalt which had been discovered by the Egyptians and Chinese would have seemed like magic.

I misread the headline as beards and thought this was going to be a much weirder story.