Science Ancient Vikings were actually Muslims - Sweden Yes!

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'Allah' patterns in Viking graves discovered in Sweden
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Swedish researchers find words 'Allah' and 'Ali' depicted in patterns on burial costumes of Vikings



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By Atila Altuntas

STOCKHOLM

Swedish researchers this week unveiled burial costumes in graves from the Viking Age with the words ‘Allah’ and ‘Ali’ written on them.

Muslims use the word Allah for god, while Ali is the name of Prophet Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law.

The Vikings could be influenced by Islam and "the idea of an eternal life in paradise after death," Annika Larsson, a researcher in textile archaeology at Uppsala University, told Anadolu Agency on Friday.

The words which appeared as ancient Arabic script’s Kufic characters were found in silk costumes in boat-graves as well as in chamber graves in Sweden's Birka, the historic Viking city.
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"In the Quran, it is written that the inhabitants of paradise will wear garments of silk, which along with the text band’s inscriptions may explain the widespread occurrence of silk in Viking Age graves," the researcher said in an earlier statement.

Similar Kufic characters were also found in mosaics on burial monuments and mausoleums, primarily in Central Asia, the university said in a statement.

In 2015, Swedish researchers at Stockholm University also discovered a ninth century ring in a Viking grave with an inscription that says ‘for Allah’ or ‘to Allah’.
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Does that make the refugee importation a nationalist movement?
 
Oh shit, not like they imported metric fucktons of fabric, jewelry and houseware from all over the world or anything, they must have definitely been mudslimes

(Also isn't a massive stretch to suggest that random patterns in tablet weave are the sign of allah either)
 
this just proves that vikings were in contact with the muslim world, which we already know. Why is this news?
 
Foltest said:
this just proves that vikings were in contact with the muslim world, which we already know. Why is this news?
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Technically doesn't prove anything in this case because they are literally just looking at the tie off points in strips of tablet weave and then asserting that it is the sign of allah when it is clearly just a (very) vaguely similar shape in weave of the fabric.
It's like they're not even trying, since they could have pushed "muslims were vikings!" using actual islamic artifacts which were bought/stolen by vikingr and taken back to Sweden.
 
well, guess no one will use "islam is a race and being Islamophobic is racism" argument ever again.
 
If Vikings were Muslim, then why am I not seeing swedes with the name Mohammad, Mohammadson or Mohammadfinn and more Thors, Thorsons and Thorfinns
 
entropyseekswork said:
That explains the penchants for rape and raiding.
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The only difference being the areas conquered by Vikings eventually adopted a Greco-Roman cultural renaissance, while areas conquered by Muslims, despite their golden age beforehand and modern age Western colonialism giving them a boost, are still shitholes.
 
If you find a tomb of a Muslim Viking you've probably just found the tomb of someone who joined a Viking warband. It's not rocket science lol
 
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