History ping. Not sure if this was posted back in 2015 or not. I searched Google and didn’t pull up anything on FR.
Probably an Antonio Banderas fan.
Most women have had a first or Secret Love they don’t talk to their present spouses about.
Vikings kicked some Muslim butt and kept the spoils. They did not speak Arabic. Wife liked the ring so he gave it to her. They had no idea what it said.
bought as a slave by the Vikings perhaps? Although that doesn’t explain how she maintained her Islamic “religion.”
Hopefully her husband took it from a dead Muslim.
Must be where the Vikings got their rape and pillage rep.
Vikings met up in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean after traveling their from both the Atlantic and the Volga River.
Where is the surprise that a Viking brought home a souvenier?
Vikings made it all the way down to Islamic countries to plunder, that’s why.
The Vikings were well known slave traders. Often taking Irish women to trade to the hsrems of Cordoba. The returns may well have included jewelry such as this.
Because the Vikings kicked Muzzie butt - or someone who had kicked Muzzie butt - and kept the ring as booty.
That was the Viking profession back then, no?
Occam’s razor - Viking sacked someplace where Muslims existed, took the ring as loot and gave it to his woman back home. Trying to spin this into something more, such as some sort of cultural exchange program or something, is insanity unless you have a lot more evidence.
“”They do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating...”
How times change. Now we say this about Muslims.
Volga Trade Route, raid on Muslims in Spain or North Africa, Who knows? I hope it got some poor Norse guy out of the doghouse, wherever it came from.
While doing some genealogy with my sister, we were trying to understand a DNA connection through Turkey very early AD, and found that some Scandinavian countries (where gr-gr-grandparents came from) had imported royalty from around Turkey.
Of course, I lost the resource, and haven’t been able to refind it with casual searching.
Shoot the current translator, and get a certified one that will translate, GOD is GREAT!
There was a dead Muslim with a missing finger.