What do you think the Crusades were about? Bro they’re not ‘spinning’ there are Grand Theft Auto Vice City Dragon Ball Gta Shirt of historical links between the Rus, Central/Eastern Europe and Islamic world. The most famous European sword design is the Uhflbert sword (of mostly found traded by and owned by Vikings including those in Ireland), they were forged from Damascus steel most likely from Sri Lanka and by way of Persians. Do research on Volga Vikings it’s interesting link…or if you want a fun but obviously crazy inaccurate, just watch the 13th Warrior (partially based on Crichton’s spin.
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Alam Khan, when I was at Birkbeck College, University of London, my history professor was Sir Richard Evans and one thing he disliked most about history as a subject, were historical revisionists. He dedicated his first lecture to us on that subject. Delaman Sel, of course a religion, a belief system cam invade a place. the article is not really exploring trade. It would be pretty disingenuous as trade between the Norse and Middle East and farther field is well known as is the Islamic world and elsewhere.
What next? Roman coin found in Rome? The article’s headline is why did Vikings have “Allah” embroidered on funeral clothes” and goes on to state it is “likely these findings show that Viking age burial customs were influenced by Islamic ideas such as eternal life in paradise after death.” One can deduce the article is not about trade but Islamic presence and influence on the Viking (And hence Northern European world). One reason some might wish to do this is to counter some current views against more Islamic presence in Europe by justifying it as long established.
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Leaving aside any Islamic presence at that time as much smaller than current day the Vikings had several views on the fate of the dead such as Valhalla and Hel and had no need for Islamic views no matter what the authors wish. I don’t like the way the article confuses trade with influence and presence and raising the old reporter trick of raising the question and hinting but not stating exactly what the point is.Poorly written. Would one write a story on those runic inscriptions in Istanbul mosques as Viking influence on Islamic worshipping practices?
Err no.Story should probably read “funeral clothes found with Allah written on probably there due to long established cloth trade and no other Islamic relics found there.” It’s been established that The middle east was one of the primary trading markets for the Vikings. It makes perfect sense to pick up some things from a trading partner, or to intermarry. Y’all really don’t get that rules aren’t always followed, Islam was practiced differently back then, Vikings could have pretended to convert or of course the old abduction of sex slaves as they commonly did elsewhere.
Thomas -yes, that far. The trip from eastern China to the Mediterranean (Grand Theft Auto Vice City Dragon Ball Gta Shirt) was even longer and done almost exclusively across inhospitable terrains. Thomas yes it is well known that the Byzantine emperor in Constantinople (Istanbul today) used Viking mercenaries as his personal guard. if they got as far as Istanbul why not further? saw a documentary that the Vikings got their best steel from Damascus. The Vikings took wives from all over the place. Many of them from Ireland especially, but also from elsewhere in Europe and beyond. The Normans were a direct result of such a marriage alliance and the fact that they remained in a Christian kingdom and adopted their customs, rather than vice versa.