Show ski idea not new implements for the purpose served by the modern ski were used by many nations of antiquity xenophon describes the shoes or pattens of skins with which the horses of the armen lans ians were shod to prevent them from sill sinking king into th snow and procopius Proc oplus made mention of the ancient lapps known in scandinavia as eskrid fin nen or sliders snowshoes aeve alwais been by the mong mongols of northwestern asia from the evidence of the old neese sagas they mus roust have been general in scandinavia long before the christian era ulf or ullar the god of winter I 1 Is always spoken of as walking upon the curved toes of ekich which gave rise to the legend clit they were really ships upon which the god was wafted wafred over hill bill and dale |