9thC Danes depicted as Muslims/Saracens & attacking St Edmund, see http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/175330709X449116 … (http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2278_f061r …)pic.twitter.com/RcsUrYrMUU
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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 …
Many years ago I remember reading about Viking era Arabic coins being found by Swedish archaeologists. Very interesting
Indeed! In fact, a fair few made it over to Britain too... :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/545160149422592000 …
Remarkable! Is there any truth in the belief that the capture of Islamic Dirhams, in part, fuelled the Viking age?
The scale of the import of dirhams is certainly astonishing -- over 100 million on some estimates! See alsohttps://www.academia.edu/1764468/Dirhams_for_slaves._Investigating_the_Slavic_slave_trade_in_the_tenth_century …
@Ballandalus Ah they also mention 9C glass ring from Birka, a media hoopla couple years ago, but I wasn't quite convinced by "Allah" readingpic.twitter.com/d7rj0SNjZJ
No, I recall the reading was somewhat problematic? Also it became a Seljuk ring in some reporting, iirc? :)
So interesting! Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure :)
Great! Thanks for sharing these.
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how we're finding so much evidence of connection amongst seemingly disparate cultures. Very exciting & good model for today
It's plunder, what else could it be?
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