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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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 …
Also sev. new findings of Arabic coins in middle of Norway. Used as necklace (Baghad/Al-Mamun/ca 820): https://www.nrk.no/ho/fant-1200-ar-gammel-solvmynt-1.12953335 … @Ballandalus
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