I love all of your historical artifacts posts, PugJesus. Fascinating!
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Just trying to bring a few intriguing historical tidbits to the Fediverse! π
Your posts are an oasis in a vast desert of political corruption , environmental apocalypse, and financial malaise. Anyways⦠I, and I am sure others, thank you.
Totally! You're kicking ass pugjesus
For real dude! Itβs so bad out there.
You bring a lot of interesting things in many different spaces here. Thank you
So... Viking who converted to Islam, or loot from a raid, or what?
Clothes and jewellery around the decomposed skeleton showed it to be a female burial dating back to 850 AD.
Or maybe some Viking found himself a Muslim wife?
We have found Damascus steel in viking camps in Sweden, so it is quite possible that this ring was traded for, or looted.
Until we find conclusive proof of conversion to Islam, we should be very careful in reading further into this than simply being an interesting artifact.
I thought it was pretty standard for people to travel around this far, especially the Vikings. They were sought after as mercenaries, afaik, and I imagine this sort of artifact could be part of a pay packet.
There's Viking graffiti in Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, for example.
I think that some people will connect the artifact to the current gang issues here in Sweden.
That seems like a huge leap. As a non swede my first impression was that some viking probably "married" a pretty Muslim girl he came across doing what vikings purportedly did.
Thats fair, as a Swede I have been used to people constantly taking shots at us lately about migration and gang crime
Loot, trade, conversion - it's fascinating because the possibilities are really endless.
True
I'm gambling on booty for booty
Slave trade. Wife is a loose term in that context.
Guess a genetic analysis (if bone sizes isn't enough) would check that quickly.
Have y'all not seen the documentary about this?
Excellent movie!
Just a tip, either put a date in the title or don't write it like it's something new. The article is from 2015.
And the ring is from 800. It's all old stuff!
Ring went from Allah to valhalla