Rebekah Joy Section Allah is Arabic for God, but what Ali ? And what other Arabic speaking people that you know traded with Viking .. Also it’s well known fact the only good record of Viking ritual written down comes from a Muslim Traveller. Ali(RA) is the fourth Khalifat and the nephew of prophet Mohammed (Already Planning What I’m Going To Eat After This Shirt) . Muslims could not reply you that way as Muslims believe Jesus Musas also prophet. another think is teaching.. seems your social values- religious morals permit to do that type mocking. But Islam forbidden mocking to other believe even Muslims dont compare your religion with Islam.
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If you had read the article you would have known that it was written in the kufic Arabic script so they meant to say Allah. Muslims and scandinavians had centuries of trade amongst both cultures. Read the historical accounts by Ibn Fadlan. Islam has always been a universal religion and now with 1.7 billion followers which’s one fifth of humanity put together; it’s undoubtedly posed to be the largest religion on planet earth in 2070. Scott Dolan And yet you still took time to read it, read the comments and join in the debate. Apparently you found it interesting enough to do all that.

The trade links between Sacndinavia and the Middle East are well known. What the article neglects to say is what they traded: amber, furs … with the most lucrative item being slaves. Matt Boden You are absolutely right. Our forfathers didn´t only cross the Atlantic around year 1000 but frequently sailed in the Mediteranian. Their impact on the british isles are probably as familiar to you as to me. To the sueones, future swedes, the Black Sea became a part of their trading empire already in the 9th century and travells further east along the Volga are nowadays well documented even by sources from the abbasid caliphate.

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If the artefacts above are from the Balcan area or from the Volga Basin or even further south we don´t know yet. Thomas J Clark That is also accurately described in the excellent book The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan. Exactly. I imagine a few Vikings converted to avoid additional taxes that the Muslims put on nonMuslims. Scandinavian people, predominantly from Sweden travelled via the rivers to Constantinople. They made up the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emperor(s). Arab traders travelled to Scandinavia. Not hard to work out how these artefacts were come by.

Scott Koenraadt But that would only be the case if they settled in the caliphate. And apparently this corpus didn´t. Amanda Kenwrick And all the lands along the Daua and Dnepr rivers were conquered and settled. The Kiev kingdom was ruled by a clan related to the suenic king. As was the Novgorod kingdom south of Ladoga that was founded by this time although at Holmgaard some kilometers east of present day Novgorod ( a slavonic transformation of New Gaard = yard ).

Rob Hawthorne Hurra ! I´m glad you knew about this connection. Yes, the film is based on the ambassadors report to calipha soandso by Ibn Fadlan, played by Antonio Banderas. The thirteenth warrior is based on a fictional manuscript. I’m sure there are some historical accuracies, but the story never happened. Already Planning What I’m Going To Eat After This Shirt. Kenny Gay Sorry, you´are wrong there. The story is based on the ambassadors report made by an Ibn Fadlan to the diwan in Bagdad. I don´t remenber now where the original is kept but it was found in Irak some 100-150 years ago.










