The discovery of Arabic characters that spell “Allah” and “Ali” on Viking funeral costumes in boat graves in Sweden has raised questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia.
The grave where the costumes were found belonged to a woman dressed in silk burial clothes and was excavated from a field in Gamla Uppsala, north of Stockholm.
Annika Larsson, a textile archaeologist at Uppsala University, discovered the Arabic characters in February, as she was preparing some of the items for an exhibition on Viking couture in Enkoping, Sweden. Upon closer examination of the band from all angles, she said, she realized she was looking at Kufic script. The words Allah and Ali appeared in the silk.
“My opinion is that those who wore the fabrics must have understood the symbolism,” said Dr. Larsson. “Some Viking women most likely converted to Islam.“
Christian Skoldborg, a spokesman for Fenris, a Viking re-enactment group that travels to markets all over Europe to sell crafts and show how Vikings lived, said the thought of a deeper cultural exchange between the Vikings and the Arab world was not such a shock. “This notion that Vikings were a pure race — that picture is something we need to wash away,” he said. “There are so many artifacts that show Arabic writing in the bands. It is very likely that they came here and lived,” said Mr. Skoldborg.
Solveig von Malmborg, who belongs to the network Vikings Against Racism, which tries to combat the extreme right’s appropriation of Viking heritage, said Viking enthusiasts were often mistaken for racists and Nazis. We think they should find their own symbols.”
>be viking >explore new lands for the glory of odin >reach some desert city >go to the marketplace >find cool new silk with cool symbols on it >buy it and bring it home >1000 years later some faggot tumblrites try to use it as evidence that you were muslim so that your descedants will feel more comfortable with somali refugees raping their wifes
Ryder Jones
>twitter experts the person cited in these sources is a fucking PhD with a focus on arabic art, she knows her shit more than the lady who made the "discovery" (a fucking art professor who has never formally studied 10th century arabic art).
Gabriel Nelson
>find cool new silk with cool symbols on it
Or;
> Take it from any of the mountains of Muslim corpses you and your buddies heaped up along the Caspian Sea
Like, is everyone forgetting that the Rus basically genocided half the Turkic tribes in Eastern Europe?
The Byzantine primary sources literally describe them stomping out the Khazars out of existence.
There is your loot.
There is your ring.
> is a fucking PhD with a focus on arabic art
Fucking lol.
Also, she was debunked by loads of other PhD'ers, calling her for what she is, an obviously biased cunt that wanted her field to have more importance in Sweden.
Cameron Morales
no, but they traded with muslims. it is possible that some of them might have converted.
Kevin Fisher
Just imagine, when future archaeologists crack open a weeb's apartment and find his skeleton buried with anime body pillows, someone may finally confuse him as being Japanese.
Luis Bell
>Khazars >Muslim corpses
Jaxon Morris
That does not make sense at all.
Xavier Fisher
The swedes are a pathetic, defeated people.
Elijah Rodriguez
That would explain why Vikings behave like a bunch a niggers on a rampage.
Joseph Green
This ain't Eaters of the Dead. A very, very small number of Vikings went beyond Miklagard and personally saw the Middle East, no Arab ever made the travel to Scandinavia.
Connor Miller
Exactly.
Brayden James
Vikings traded as far as the Black Sea, easily the Volga
Muslims inhabited those areas
Andrew Sanchez
Why is Sweden so intent on wiping itself off the map?
Chase Roberts
Baltic.
Benjamin Price
How does this prove the vikings being muslim?How about you go back to tumblr
Alexander Miller
Disprove and false. It's not kufic script and even if it were, that's a nonstarter. It'd be like saying that some guy is Buddhist just because he got a tattoo of the dharmic wheel.
William Evans
What difference would it actually make if some Vikings turns out to have been Muslim?
Benjamin Reed
it would be major victory for progress in the fight against racism
Justin Foster
Nothing suprising here
Vikings were Muslims and Africans
t. knower
Ryan Richardson
all they would prove is that vikings weren't open to 1 but 2 foreign religions.
Jackson Cooper
> A very, very small number of Vikings went beyond Miklagard and personally saw the Middle East
lol;
The Khazar melech writing to Hasdai ibn Shaprut;
"I protect the mouth of the rivers and fight the Rus from breaching in their ships from setting of by the sea against the Ishmaelites(Muslims) and all enemies from setting off by the land of Bab.
I wage war with them. If I left them in peace for a single hour they would raze the whole land of the Ishmaelites up to Baghdad."
The Rus buttraped cities in Caspian sea Iran, let alone the Black Sea.
