Another article on the medieval notion that the pre-Conquest English & Vikings were Muslims/Saracens: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/jlo/vol2/iss1/2/ … (pic=f.47r)pic.twitter.com/L7eQRcKAbi
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Another article on the medieval notion that the pre-Conquest English & Vikings were Muslims/Saracens: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/jlo/vol2/iss1/2/ … (pic=f.47r)pic.twitter.com/L7eQRcKAbi
9thC Viking warriors depicted as Muslims, again in the 15thC BL MS Harley 2278, f.98v: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2278_f098v …pic.twitter.com/7o2yWbJtdF
Of course, worth noting that there is some potential evidence for Viking converts to Islam: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wuN-AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA543&pg=PA543#v=onepage&q&f=true …pic.twitter.com/AQKReA2Nuc
A L9thC Islamic incense burner found in Sweden; currently in Länsmuseet Gävleborg: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wuN-AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA547&pg=PA547#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/awh8jhHGyu
Also interesting is claim that some of Vikings who attacked Seville in 844 stayed+converted: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ij8jCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA82#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/z2i36XKQF9
For interest, an account of a mid-9thC Viking raid on Nakur, Morocco, that saw them occupy the city for 8 days:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/743576768007766016 …
I love the fellows who are about to fire more arrows, which seems completely unnecessary. And it appears that they'll hit each other!
Yes, but guess they wanted to make really, really sure....!
The Danes were simply portrayed as the contemporary 15th c. enemies which were the Ottomans. Historical accuracy wasn't relevant back then
No, don't think this is case, or at least not fully. Seems to have been notion that pre-Conquest English+Danes were Muslims, see articles :)
Don't you mean Saint Sebastian?
I guess the Danes-dressed-as-Muslims were really Danes? I will have to see why Chaucer felt pressure to appear orientalist? or not really?
It's interesting; as articles referenced indicate, there does seem to have been an idea that Saxons+Danes were actually Muslim, however...
What do you make of this? https://nyti.ms/2kNB2rs
V interesting, but exact import needs consideration as does question of inscription (as with the ring published a year or so back, iirc) :)
That was exactly my thought--still a neat find!
I found a 1290s English ref to a ship from Riga in Latvia - its home port was described as 'near the land of the Saracens'
Could "Saracens" be Mongols in that context?
IIRC the Teutonic Order did a lot to equate pagan Balts with Saracens, importing terminology from the holy land
Interesting, thanks.The ref crops up in an inventory of arrested ships & their gear in NE England: no obvious reason to mentions Saracens!
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