Al-Bakrī's 11thC account of the mid-9thC Viking raid on Nakūr [Nekor, Morocco], from his Book of Roads and Kingdoms:pic.twitter.com/Lg0bcmZb1y
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It's all *purely* imaginary+not really justified at all, but that bit...well...totally unacceptable. How it got published!?
I was not born then, but I magine standards were different, back then.
Quite possibly so :/
Judging by the older texts that @WhoresofYore sometimes tweets, they were not averse to really ghastly language.
True... tho' this is an arch report published in 1980...! Obituary suggests he revelled in being creepy...
Perhaps something darker going on, there? (Not wanting to slander someone I don't know, mind)
:-/ v hard to say, but have read a few of his reports and papers and often v hmmmmm :/
I hope it's "just" an example of some aging white man being creepy, and nobody calling him out on it.
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