‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes

pruningthemindsgarden:

zezlemet:

mizuaoi:

thantos1991:

brainstatic:

Shhh, do you hear that? It’s every white supremacist screaming all at once.

And a glorious sound it is.

@coeur-de-leon

@lady-feral

I’m going to go out on a limb here and venture that they cared less about Muslim values or culture – beautiful as those are – and more about pretty things they either traded for or stole. They were Vikings, after all. 

You are very likely wrong there–the image of Vikings as barbaric raiders who cared nothing for culture is pretty much 100% wrong. Plus this is not remotely the first piece of evidence of cultural exchange between Vikings and Central Asia–the article even mentions a couple of others.

‘Allah’ Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes