Someone wrote the piece about the Vikings I have been writing in my head for weeks! And it's excellent. (Corrected thread)https://twitter.com/dorothyk98/status/913419270041882625 …
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I would have added that it was Arab dirhams that helped propel the Viking Age - here's one that made its way all the way from Iraq to Essexpic.twitter.com/d7mBicWh1G
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Do you know the most common inscription found in Viking Scandinavia? It's لا إله إلا الله "There is no God but God" appearing on Arab coinspic.twitter.com/37X0dDDEAl
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And Offa, Anglo-Saxon ruler of Mercia, kept Arabic inscription intact when he copied a gold dinar of Abbasid caliph al-Mansur struck 773-4pic.twitter.com/tPd9l0hMik
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@caitlinrgreen, Luke Treadwell and others for their work tracking Arab coinage in Viking lands! http://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/12/distribution-of-islamic-dirhams-in-england.html …1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread
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