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I was wondering where the forearm handshake came from. I found absolutely nothing in wikipediaWikipedia, so I have no idea if this is really historically based or just a recent popular greeting. I was led to believe that it may have been used by europeanEuropean pre-roman age tribes.

I was wondering where the forearm handshake came from. I found absolutely nothing in wikipedia, so I have no idea if this is really historically based or just a recent popular greeting. I was led to believe that it may have been used by european pre-roman age tribes.

I was wondering where the forearm handshake came from. I found absolutely nothing in Wikipedia, so I have no idea if this is really historically based or just a recent popular greeting. I was led to believe that it may have been used by European pre-roman age tribes.

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Does the forearm grip/handshake have a historical basis?

I was wondering where the forearm handshake came from. I found absolutely nothing in wikipedia, so I have no idea if this is really historically based or just a recent popular greeting. I was led to believe that it may have been used by european pre-roman age tribes.