Worth noting, lots of evidence for Viking-Muslim contact, but ring may represent diff type? https://www.academia.edu/1764468/Dirhams_for_slaves._Investigating_the_Slavic_slave_trade_in_the_tenth_century …pic.twitter.com/DbKETlPuTu
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Worth noting, lots of evidence for Viking-Muslim contact, but ring may represent diff type? https://www.academia.edu/1764468/Dirhams_for_slaves._Investigating_the_Slavic_slave_trade_in_the_tenth_century …pic.twitter.com/DbKETlPuTu
That is, suggestion is that ring may have come via a different route to the hundreds of thousands of Islamic coins found in N+E Europe :)
@caitlinrgreen I wonder what we traded in return! Wool perhaps! Metals.
@Tweets2CV Muslim account suggests trade in amber+coloured stones via Viking Dublin, whereas trade via Russia was in slaves and furs etc :)
@caitlinrgreen No wonder that Irish had early wonderful ideas of art!
@caitlinrgreen Wow, they are quite the pair, aren't they?
@VoxHiberionacum just a bit! So.... Did the ring go via Dublin to Sweden, or via the Rus'?!
@caitlinrgreen @VoxHiberionacum the authors suggest that lack of wear may mean the ring was made for the woman buried at Birka
@DrSueOosthuizen @VoxHiberionacum It's an interesting Q... They go for "few owners in between" in the abstract but mention possibility of >
@DrSueOosthuizen @VoxHiberionacum > Fwiw, I think Volga etc route made less likely by lack of wear, but beyond that...? Lots of room for >
@DrSueOosthuizen @VoxHiberionacum > speculation! Muslim bride?! (p6) Trade via Dublin? Mint condition loot? Or islamic traders in North?! :)
@caitlinrgreen @VoxHiberionacum yes, exactly! Very exciting
@DrSueOosthuizen @caitlinrgreen Fascinating stray/grave finds. Precious & personal loss. Orig: people who want to express dualism up close.
Cf Al-Idrisi for poss hints of Muslim/Viking trade in amber+coloured stones via 9thC Dublin: http://www.ria.ie/getmedia/c7871b8b-1ce4-4814-ac49-1f06f3cd7683/Early-Medieval-Ireland_Ch7_Web.pdf.aspx …pic.twitter.com/wx7HHPPI17
@caitlinrgreen Correct to assume ring came to Birka via Dneiper/Volga/'Rus', whereas cross would come to Ireland from Medit. via Gibraltar?
@JWTorg not necessarily: clearly travel between Ireland and ?Spain/N Africa in 8-9thC, so poss ring might have gone via Dublin? :)
@caitlinrgreen Right was hoping you'd say that, as most older models of EM exchange would really not have considered that route to Sweden...
@JWTorg Indeed---the other seems more obvious! Nonetheless, def seems possible! :)
See also this: Vikings visit 9thC N Africa & bring "a great host" of slaves back to Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100017/ …pic.twitter.com/eQvN0H6Nm0
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