An ?11thC account of Vikings bringing "a great host" of slaves from N. Africa to 9thC Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100017/ …pic.twitter.com/GgMYBhqMJS
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Aerial photo, plan and reconstruction of the 8-11thC trading settlement at Hedeby (N Germany): http://mgeisler.net/danish/kongemagt/byer/ …pic.twitter.com/Q9JJEus1JU
Fwiw, this paper discusses al-Tartushi's claim that the Vikings of Hedeby throw (some of) their babies into the sea:https://www.academia.edu/808691/_Selective_Female_Infanticide_as_Partial_Explanation_for_the_Dearth_of_Women_in_Viking_Age_Scandinavia_pp._205-221_in_Violence_and_Society_in_the_Early_Medieval_West_edited_by_Guy_Halsall._Woodbridge_United_Kingdom_Boydell_Press_1998_paperback_2002 …
I spent the first thirty years of my life in Denmark (somewhat north of Schleswig). That's how it sounds when I sing, too.
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