[RoosterRedux]

Timing wise, it is quite possible that such words would make their way from the Greco-Roman (Greek) and Indo-Roman (Sanskrit) world into Roman England and then into the Viking world when the Vikings attacked England and took women and slaves back home.

That said, Rome had trade with India when Julius Caesar was emperor and afterward.

If you follow the language, you can learn a lot of history.

[chajin]

Rome had trade with India when Julius Caesar was emperor and afterward.

There were ships from Aqaba that went to Goa via the strait of Djibouti, taking gold to India and returning with the expensive spice of the time, black pepper. When Thomas went to India, he did it via the Parthian Empire (i.e., Iraq and then Iran), but it would make sense that he would also have taken a ship from perhaps modern-day Abadan or Shahid Rajae to land in Goa rather than braving the Kush. Then afterward another one around the Indian peninsula to land on the east coast, where he was martyred.