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Letter: Viking on starboard bow?

Published 5 October 2005

From Mick Sylvester

In writing about the medical mystery of Egil Skallagrimsson, you appear to have missed a conclusion that will be obvious to all Trekkies (17 September, p 48). He was a poet, a prodigious drinker and a legendary warrior with enormous strength who boasted an enlarged skull, “ridged on the outside like a scallop shell”. Is this not the perfect description of a Klingon?

Reading, Berkshire, UK

Issue no. 2520 published 8 October 2005

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