Ring brings ancient Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together

[B+ Dracula]

go take it from her...

 

[rockstar08]

Are rings inscribed "for Allah" commonly worn by Muslims today?

well it can be in some culture , but i never see anyone wearing a ring with Written Allah in it ...
many people here in South Asia wear Necklaces , with written Allah and Rasool ( Muhammad Pbuh )

 

[jamahir]

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oh, yes... made for each other.

 

[Kambojaric]

I think we need 5,6 Seasons for that.The series is awesome,i hope it will have at least 7,8 Seasons.Maybe concentrate on Ivar the Boneless after the demise of Ragnar.

I think we will definitely see the "Great Heathen Army" given that in the first season they have already shown Aella's snakepit. Also the extensive focus on Ivar this season with Odin himself coming to Kattegat seems to imply in my opinion that he has a role to play in this series in the future.

 

[flamer84]

I think we will definitely see the "Great Heathen Army" given that in the first season they have already shown Aella's snakepit. Also the extensive focus on Ivar this season with Odin himself coming to Kattegat seems to imply in my opinion that he has a role to play in this series in the future.

I presumed that the Stranger is Loki...But you're right,whoever he is,he looks like he cured Ivar so he will be able to lead in the future.

Muslims don't touch the name of Allah in state of impurity. So it is'nt possible they would sell or gift product this kind to such impure people. It tells the obvious what would've happened.

"Gib ring"

 

[Gibbs]

Inscription, style and lack of wear point to rare archaeological evidence of contact
BY
BRUCE BOWER
1:00PM, MARCH 13, 2015

DISTANT BLING A new study suggests that a ninth century ring from a Viking site in Sweden came directly from the Islamic civilization. The ring includes an inset of colored glass engraved with ancient Arabic script.


More than a century after its discovery in a ninth century woman’s grave, an engraved ring has revealed evidence of close contacts between Viking Age Scandinavians and the Islamic world.

Excavators of a Viking trading center in Sweden called Birka recovered the silver ring in the late 1800s. Until now, it was thought that it featured a violet amethyst engraved with Arabic-looking characters. But closer inspection with a scanning electron microscope revealed that the presumed amethyst is colored glass (an exotic material at the time), say biophysicist Sebastian Wärmländer of Stockholm University and his colleagues.

An inscription on the glass inset reads either “for Allah” or “to Allah” in an ancient Arabic script, the researchers report February 23 in Scanning.

Scandinavians traded for fancy glass objects from Egypt and Mesopotamia as early as 3,400 years ago (SN: 1/24/15, p. 8). Thus, seagoing Scandinavians could have acquired glass items from Islamic traders in the same part of the world more than 2,000 years later rather than waiting for such desirable pieces to move north through trade networks.

Ancient texts mention encounters around 1,000 years ago between Scandinavians and members of the Islamic civilization, which stretched from West Asia to Mediterranean lands. Archaeological evidence supporting those accounts, though, is rare.

The inner surface of the Birka ring’s silver body shows virtually no signs of wear. Filing marks made in the final stage of its production are still visible. That suggests that the ring made by an Arabic silversmith had few or no owners before it reached the Viking woman, the researchers say.

Ring brings ancient Viking, Islamic civilizations closer together | Science News

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Interesting read

 

[Kambojaric]

I presumed that the Stranger is Loki...But you're right,whoever he is,he looks like he cured Ivar so he will be able to lead in the future.

Well AFAIK in Norse mythology Odin is referred to as "the wanderer". The God in the show similarly is called "the wanderer". But I dont know too much about Viking gods so you could be right.

 

[jamahir]

i always wondered if there is only one fellow in hollywood who voices the trailers... "you have seen the terminator, you have seen the eraser..."

always that same deep voice and that funny way of voice-over.

 

[WAJsal]

wajsal's article says stone.

and the pictures show the red coloring going to the inside of that object.

It's colored glass from what i know.The rest god knows.

 

[Jaanbaz]

Muslims don't touch the name of Allah in state of impurity. So it is'nt possible they would sell or gift product this kind to such impure people. It tells the obvious what would've happened.

If you could get your head out of your back end you would realise that Muslims in medieval ages were more progressive and less extremist compared to now.

 

[The SC]

Viking series on history channel is one of my favorite TV show, i have learnt a lot about vikings from it. In a preview Rognar is shown planning invasion of France, i wonder if they will also be raiding shores of Muslim spain at some point......

Indeed they have raided some coastal villages in Andalusia in Spain, then came in contact with a Muslim army that has finished their history of looting. by killing every capable man, spared the women, the children and the elderly and sent them back home.

 

[jamahir]

If you could get your head out of your back end you would realise that Muslims in medieval ages were more progressive and less extremist compared to now.

precisely... though there were disruptions brought in by the taliban of those times, the hashisheen.

by the way, aga khan comes from that line, you know.

 

[Jaanbaz]

precisely... though there were disruptions brought in by the taliban of those times, the hashisheen.

by the way, aga khan comes from that line, you know.

Hashisheen are extinct. Aga Khan is Ismaili Shia lmam. Neither is Aga Khan Arab.

 

[jamahir]

Hashisheen are extinct. Aga Khan is Ismaili Shia lmam.

i know.

Neither is Aga Khan Arab.

so all hashisheen were arab and none irani?? i thought their ideology was came at least a bit from irani source.

 

[Jaanbaz]

i know.



so all hashisheen were arab and none irani?? i thought their ideology was came at least a bit from irani source.

You do realise early Shias were mostly Arabs right?