<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> <P> Knud Bergslien's Birkebeiner escaping with the prince child </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Advertisement for ski race in La Porte, California (1869) </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Theodor von Lerch, an Austrian major, teaching skiing to Japanese army as the first experience to Japan at Jōetsu, Niigata on 12 January 1911 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Skiing in Scandinavia, 1767 </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Böksta Runestone is believed to depict the Viking god Ullr with his skis and his bow </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The 1903 rendition of medieval Russian soldiers' use of skis to facilitate their movement during winter campaigns, by Sergey Ivanov . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Norse goddess Skaði hunts in the mountains on skis in an illustration (1901) by H.L.M. </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Kiandra "Snow Shoe" (Skiing) Carnival, New South Wales, Australia, in 1900 . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Wolf hunting on skis </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Depiction of Samis skiing, by John Bauer . </P> </Li> </Ul> <Li> <P> Knud Bergslien's Birkebeiner escaping with the prince child </P> </Li> <P> Knud Bergslien's Birkebeiner escaping with the prince child </P> <Li> <P> Advertisement for ski race in La Porte, California (1869) </P> </Li>

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