Ice Skates

              Today's splendid skates have come to us through improments over the centuries. Perhaps the earliest ice skates were simply the bones of animals which were bount tothe feet.The primitive Norsemen made much use of these bone "runners" and later other people of Northern Europe quickly learned how to travel at speed on icy surfaces.

       it is not know when metal skates were introduced. It may have been soon after the people of Northern Europe learned how to work iron different shapes,as early as the 4th century.