Obv comparison=8/9thC cross brooch from Ireland w/ black glass centre & an Arabic inscription: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/03/some-imitation-islamic-coins.html …pic.twitter.com/bdGA6cPS14
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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!
Above=key: some reports assume Viking-Muslim links prev unknown, as @ClementSalviani notes :) Reality=*lots* of Islamic coins in N+E Europe!
@caitlinrgreen That was a very interesting piece of reading material. Thank you very much for sharing it.
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