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work_6rcuglqyprbhvjay5isvexyswq	Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir	The Poisoned Arrows of Amor: cases of syphilis from 16th-century Iceland	2011	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5774	792	71	The Poisoned Arrows of Amor: cases of syphilis from 16th-century Iceland syphilis from 16th-century Iceland, Scandinavian Journal of History, 36:4, 406-418 nine cases of venereal and congenital syphilis during a recent excavation on a monastic site, Keywords syphilis, Medieval Iceland, Skriðuklaustur, monastery, communication Treponema, have been identified in an assemblage of 198 skeletons exhumed at the monastic site Skriðuklaustur in East Iceland, dating from the period 1496–1554. The nine syphilis cases from Skriðuklaustur monastery are all found in graves located The number of syphilis cases at the Skriðuklaustur monastery is unexpectedly high, as TABLE 1 The nine cases of syphilis found at the Skriðuklaustur monastic site, dating 1496–1554 Generally, venereal or congenital syphilis is hardly mentioned in preserved documents on the medical history of Medieval Iceland. 7 Kristjánsdóttir and Collins, 'Cases of Hydatid Disease in Medieval Iceland'; 7 Kristjánsdóttir and Collins, 'Cases of Hydatid Disease in Medieval Iceland';	./cache/work_6rcuglqyprbhvjay5isvexyswq.pdf	./txt/work_6rcuglqyprbhvjay5isvexyswq.txt