Researchers in Sweden have found Arabic characters woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves. The discovery raises new questions about the influence of Islam in Scandinavia, writes Swedish journalist Tharik Hussain.
Bew investigation into the garments - found in 9th and 10th Century graves - has thrown up groundbreaking insights into multicultural contact between the Viking and Muslim worlds.
Patterns woven with silk and silver thread have been found to spell the words "Allah" and "Ali".
The breakthrough was made by textile archaeologist Annika Larsson of Uppsala University while re-examining the remnants of burial costumes from Viking female boat and chamber graves originally excavated in Birka and Gamla Uppsala in Sweden in the late 19th and mid-20th centuries.
"I suddenly saw that the word 'Allah' [God] had been written in mirrored lettering," she says.
"We know from other Viking tomb excavations that DNA analysis has shown some of the people buried in them originated from places like Persia, where Islam was very dominant. It is likely that some Viking women took Muslim husbands.
"Now that I am looking at Viking patterns differently, I am convinced I will find more Islamic inscriptions in the remaining fragments from these excavations, and other Viking era textiles. Islam has always been part of Swedish culture.
>Let's ignore the fact that Vikings were raiders and traders and their operations reached the Byzantine empire and parts of southern Spain.
It's almost like expensive things are stolen by raiders, who would have guessed that traders trade things with other traders?
Jayden Price
>religion is biological
Luke Young
Except you have to view the piece under a mirror to see something that may or may not be writing in the first place. It's literally Sweden just trying to justify its conversion to Islam.
Asher Bell
Read up on the Varangian Guard, among other Byzantine-era Vikings in the middle east.
Fucking Swedes probably found one of these that was from a Varangian Guard who came back home after getting those sweet middle eastern spoils and now suddenly think its fine that their women are getting raped by Muhammed because they have been since the 8th century.
Ian Ortiz
No surprise. We are all muslim.
Jayden Brown
Allah isn't just Muslim.
It is an Arabic word for god.
There are and were other religions in the middle east.
Such as Christianity, Judaism, Canannite, Zoroastiran, etc.
El is a Canaanite deity.
Dominic Russell
Oh look a meme flag is shilling again!
Varingians/various Scandinavian mercenaries fought for the eastern Roman Empire for centuries
The practice became so popular (because they were paid well and were much harder to be dragged into local politics) it was made illegal for a time in various "Viking" countries
They fucking raped and pillaged the med to the Black Sea and back again, their main targets were North Africans and middle easterners, and guess who's shit they would have been stealing after a battle?
Hmmmmm
Ethan Reed
Theres DNA evidence too
Eli Baker
oh this thread again.
Parker Ramirez
LOL
So much fail.....
Do these people want to be fools? seems like it
Eli Peterson
Maybe it said Valhalla?
Dylan Wright
sweden will do anything to become muslim, even rewrite their own history and change their ancestors' gods. everything for more muslims.
i can read arabic and this doesn't say "allah". the first letter (to the right) can't connect with the 2nd letter. that's not how arabic works. it may look like the general shape of "allah", but that's about it. also it's mirrored, like what the fuck, how hard did you work to find islam in your history? and this is the best you came up with? pathetic really.
Luis Allen
>vikings were known to go almost anywhere by see >they founded small kingdoms all over Europe (England, France, Russia, Italy etc.) >they were known to establish a way from "normans to greeks" through Dnepr > they used that way to invade Eastern counries like Byzantium and arab countries >some warrior came from a invasion of some muslim country >brought lots of loot >decided to take with him a fancy looking belt with arab carvings >when he died he was buried along with the valuables he had gathered throughout his life > 1000 years later some (((journalist))) without historian ejucation wonders why did vikings have arab clothes buried with him.
Jaxon Diaz
So what you're telling me is that one of the most famous groups of pillaging rapists was actually Muslim?
Jordan Gomez
also it's pretty fucking obvious that the entire thing is just filled with geometric shapes for decoration, this doesn't resemble writing at all, especially not in arabic.
Levi Martin
>writes Swedish journalist Tharik Hussain.
Dylan Carter
Mohel is write on the whole writing part; I can read Arabic and that looks nothing at all like الله. I mean, Arabic is Sweden's national language after all, so I don't understand how they could get their own script wrong like that...
Leo Lee
fpbp
John White
*right fuck
James Taylor
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Landon Davis
There's a larger picture. If you look at the top there's something that vaguely resembles a swastika. Are we now going to say that Vikings were Nazis? Muslim Nazis of the Middle Ages?
Or are we just going to agree that someone was making geometric shapes that vaguely resemble other things that we are familiar with.
Christopher Gray
Sounds like the Muzzie is seeing Allah when God isn't. Like the Burger King label thing a few years back.
Justin Flores
>if you squint just right and look at this pattern in a mirror is looks sort of like the world allah but not really >therefor islam was always a part of swedish culture
Thank you for this rage.
Brody Roberts
or he really was some muslim settler, since >they were known to establish a way from "normans to greeks" through Dnepr
Henry Sanders
this is being far too generous. we're supposed to believe muslims embroidered the word Allah BACKWARDS and in such an obscure way that it had to be seen with a microscope...
it's clearly bullshit to the core, this is literally an intel operation.
Grayson Jackson
Vikings raped muslims and took their jewellery. And stop posting this thread all the time you autist.
Joseph Rivera
people see what they want to see. >Sup Forums sees swastikas >sweden sees islam i see a bunch of shekels lying around
Michael Diaz
It could be because he killed some goat fuckers and took something of theirs as a prize?
Nathaniel Perez
that way could work only one way from northern parts of the globe to soust parts.
Nicholas Watson
Have you ever seen "Allah" written in Arabic? It's literally three vertical strokes and a loop. You knit |||o|||o||| into a sweater and interpret that as "Allah"? My God, Sweden is really pathetic these days!
Adrian Torres
>Be proud strong pagan alpha viking >travel the world >Battle >visit distant shores and wondrous places >battle >pick up some souvenirs >go home >eventually die >get buried with souvenir bracelet
>many years later >faggot ancestor digs up your sacred burial pit >claims your a muslim based on your novelty purchase
Elijah Wilson
>It is an Arabic word for god. The Arabic word for god is "ilah", not "allah". One l less and the hanza goes under, not over.
Camden Foster
>writes Swedish journalist Tharik Hussain
Austin Brooks
In the original article it says British Journalist from London
Thomas Young
Historically, pagans tend to be quick to adopt the gods of other peoples.
Tyler Watson
This is such an obvious fabrication it's not even funny.
Nathan Nelson
ASALAAM ALEIKUM.
WE WUZ VIKINGS N SHIT, PHAM.
WE BEEN LIVING IN SWEDEN FOR 1000 YEARS
NOW OPEN THE BORDERS AND LET OUR BROTHERS IN TO SHARE THE BLONDE WOMEN
Nicholas Adams
Clearly a depiction of an eternal snake/dragon which was common in those areas. There is nothing Arabic about this at all.
Ryan Moore
They had plenty of their own, though, and their own gods came with lots of good stories to tell around a fireside. Not with endless dronings like the Koran. Seriously, go to a library and pick up a Koran. Go and see if you can stand the drivel of endless repetitions for more than two pages.
Tyler Parker
They stole wives from everywhere. Do you want people to insult your intelligence? They found Chinese artifacts to it doesn't mean they're Taoist.
Nolan Robinson
The researched had to use mirror imaging to get the word to appear in the first place. It's more likely they are swastikas and sun crosses but in the event it is some sort of Islamic reference It's much more logical to assume they just mimicked something they saw. This "researcher" has an agenda though and is basically trying to say that Islam = Scandinavia which is fucking retarded
Robert Peterson
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Anthony Jackson
some of the Varangians who served in Al Andalus, Cordoba and Cadiz under the sultans converted to Islam, yes. This is hardly news.
it's pretty well described in Roede Orm (Worm The Red), all though he himself is fictional.
Jose Cooper
Written by (((DAVID GREENBURG))) >Checks flag oh makes sense.
Michael Foster
I'm not really sure about that considering Paganism was really only stopped through violent suppression. And in many cases Pagan ceremonies, rituals, and belief systems were co-opted into Christianity.
Aaron James
Meanwhile archeologists in Sweden are destroying historical artifacts as they find them.
