Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
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Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#2the "viking buddha" is another fine example of robust trade networks during the migration period. Material goods get around!
http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki...
This goes both ways, of course. A Varangian Guards carved "halfdan was here" on the hagia sophia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#3What makes it plausible to assume a deeper connection than trade for an average case of this sort?
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#4the "viking buddha" is another fine example of robust trade networks during the migration period. Material goods get around! http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki... This goes both ways, of course. A Varangian Guards carved "halfdan was here" on the hagia sophia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#5Norse were trading and raiding all over the rivers of eastern Europe, down into the Black Sea, and likewise along the Atlantic seaboard into the Mediterranean. It would be profoundly weird if some items of Islamic provenance did not make their way into grave goods and hoards in Scandinavia.
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#6the "viking buddha" is another fine example of robust trade networks during the migration period. Material goods get around! http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki... This goes both ways, of course. A Varangian Guards carved "halfdan was here" on the hagia sophia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
What about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii_Lakshmi
another good one: the Hallstatt salt mines in what is now Austria have been around since the late Iron Age.
I recall but cannot currently find studies that have found bags of the mined salt in graves and digs all along the silk road over a time period of millennia.
"The Dark Ages" is a horrible name. It was coined to denote "a period that we, historians, don't know much about because we don't have nearly as many anal romans writing everything down and taking notes for us", but it was commonly understood as "a bad, barbaric time when civilization collapsed."
It's increasingly clear that nothing so apocalyptic happened. Trade routes survived and even thrived.
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#7What makes it plausible to assume a deeper connection than trade for an average case of this sort?
Nothing. But they will push the idea of a deeper connection because European governments are scrambling for historical and cultural justification for the massive third-world immigration which is quickly turning many European countries like Sweden into Islamic war-zones, along with all the social and economic problems you would imagine that entails.
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#8What makes it plausible to assume a deeper connection than trade for an average case of this sort?
Nothing. But they will push the idea of a deeper connection because European governments are scrambling for historical and cultural justification for the massive third-world immigration which is quickly turning many European countries like Sweden into Islamic war-zones, along with all the social and economic problems you would imagine that entails.
"Brevik" is a strange name for a boy from syria.
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#9the "viking buddha" is another fine example of robust trade networks during the migration period. Material goods get around! http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki... This goes both ways, of course. A Varangian Guards carved "halfdan was here" on the hagia sophia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
To go even further afield, Roman coins have turned up in the ruins of a 12th Century castle in Okinawa.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/science/japan-archaeology...
Re: Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
#10the "viking buddha" is another fine example of robust trade networks during the migration period. Material goods get around! http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki... This goes both ways, of course. A Varangian Guards carved "halfdan was here" on the hagia sophia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
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