Viking Bras!

On my re-enactment group's yahoo group this morning was a link to an article claiming that Viking women wore metal bras.  Naturally, as this conjured up visions of lanky Swedish blondes in chain-mail bikinis, the story ended up all over the media.  Aptly summarized with additional sarcasm here

All I can say is that I've worn tortoise brooches:

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