An ancient Viking ring carrying the inscription "for Allah" has revealed evidence of close multicultural contacts between the Nordic warriors and the Islamic world – more than a century after its discovery on a Swedish island.
Made of silver alloy, the ring is adorned with coloured glass, an exotic material at the time, engraved with an ancient Arabic script spelling the words “for Allah” or “to Allah”. The ring was found in a grave near Birka on Björkö Island in the Stockholm archipelago in the late 1800s. Other objects found in the grave indicated a woman had been buried there at around 850 AD.
The stone on the ring had previously been thought to be an amethyst. But on closer inspection Wärmländer and his colleagues revealed it was decorated with coloured glass – an expensive material at the time – and noted it was in perfect condition, indicating it had not had many owners and had not ended up in Birka by accident.
“Instead, it must have passed from the Islamic silversmith who made it to the woman buried at Birka with few, if any, owners in between,” Wärmländer told Discovery News. “The woman herself probably married a man from the Islamic world while visiting the Islamic Caliphate,” he added.
TAKBIRRRR MORE EVIDENCE TO THE NON BELIEVERS god is truly great
Aaron Ortiz
anyone who has studied history would know that Vikings had way, way more contact with the arab world, by way of byzantium, than they did with any of the central/southern euros (e.g., Varangian guard)
fuck man, the vikings even had more contact with the native americans (skraelings) than with most europeans
Aiden King
How old is the grave. Archive that shit you dumb nigger.
Lucas Evans
>go rape and loot mudshits >give ring to bitch >bitch loves ring so much cause muh dik wants to get buried in it WE WUZ FUCKIN KANGGZZZ NIGGUH
Isaac Jenkins
It reveals Vikings had a vast trade network.
Kevin Thomas
>Viking ring reveals Sweden's ancient Islamic ties NO MORE CUCCKOLDRY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Mason Hughes
>cuck by Christianity >cucked by Islam, twice
James Sanders
Again with this retarded thread. I'm going to be 80 lurking on my fucking deathbed and this shit will come up in the catolog just ban this IP already mods.
Isaac Cooper
More evidence of Allah's existence. Europe has always and will forever be Muslim. God is great, my shaqiq
Asher Garcia
>d-d-d-delete this racist thread!! :((((
Sebastian Green
>vikings >known for travelling across the sea and staying along coast lines >cross Mediterranean sea >find muslims >two warlord and barbaric sects meet >they like eachothers style >trade goods and cultures
alternatively
>two barbaric sects meet up >vikings rip ass and kill the muslims >loot an arabic ring off a dead muslim >take home as trophy
>“The woman herself probably married a man from the Islamic world while visiting the Islamic Caliphate,” he added. how do they go from calm statement of facts to wild, unsupported speculation so quickly?
Aaron Johnson
cuz it's part of their agenda. Ofcourse a viking woman traveled down o the caliphate, married a muslim and then for some reason came back here to be burried. Makes total sense :^)
I mean that a male viking traded something for this ring or killed someone and took it would be wild speculation
Easton Garcia
this
David Bennett
It's fucking retarded lol
Ryder Wright
Obvious pillage treasure is obvious. Old and nor appropriate for/pol/. Sage
Brandon Perry
>tfw norbot hasn't graced us with his presence for this thread.
Hudson Evans
nonsense goyim, this just proves that muslims are nordic. so no need to worry about protecting your racist white culture. just let muslims into your country by the millions, this ring proves they have as much right to be there as you do
Anthony Reed
They were black you dumbass What's wrong snowflake, can't handle the fact that nonwhites contributed to European history?
Lucas Morgan
you idiots have no idea what "snowflake" means do you?
Isaac Parker
This has no meaning. I just went to the viking exhibit at the denver museum. there is a bunch of islamic shit from excavations at Birka, like a whole hoard of islamic coins.
vikings raided and traded all over. There was also a Buddha statue too.
doesn't mean they were Buddhists.
the viking husband of the woman probably deported a kabab and gave the shiny ring with funny lines to his woman.
Xavier Hall
>woman converted to islam even though viking culture allowed women to own property and divorce their husbands while islam did not
HISTORY IS LITERALLY REPEATING ITSELF WOMEN WILL ALWAYS FLOCK TO THE OPPRESSOR
William Sanders
This is a joke, right>
John Scott
>way more contact with muslims >except all those invasions, those invasions of places like france and england and sicily don't count as contact
Tyler Martin
This proves that marrying sandniggers is a longstanding Swedish tradition. Why does Sup Forums hate tradition?
Jayden Ortiz
Cuz they're cuckolds. Literal fucking cuckolds.
Evan Watson
Actually, there is a written skiing of an Arabic or Persian explorer who went up there and was mesmerized by how beautiful they were, the pale skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes, but also mortified how barbaric and sexually open they were.I wish I could remember who it was.
Dylan Davis
This thread is reposted between 1-2 weeks apart. Litterally the thread that cannot be killed. Only extreme newfags keep it alive. If you've been here for less than 2 months this thread has been posted 3 times
Ibn Fadlan (Arabic: أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāšid ibn Ḥammād, fl. 921–22) was a 10th-century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, known as his Risala ("account" or "journal")[1] His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including an eyewitness account of a ship burial.[2]
