The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

ancestors with the help of whom the new ‘homeland’ should be ‘settled’. The large barrows in Chernihiv reveal some rituals conne ...

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frühen Mittelalter bis 20. Jahrhundert. Norbert Angermann zum 60. Geburtstag, Lüneburg: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk. Me ...

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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE THE VIKINGS AND ISLAM Egil Mikkelsen T he main sources at hand studying the contacts between the Vikings and ...

that he saw among these people 5 , 000 men and women, who had all converted to Islam. They were called al-baringâr, which is int ...

immediately to Paradise.’ Another contrast between Old Norse religion and Islam is that the Vikings buried their dead with a lot ...

Arabic colonies in Spain and the western Mediterranean. The stream of coins started at the end of the eighth century and reached ...

identical. They were probably made by the same person: a man in Bulgar (Arne 1932 : 108 ). Vessels of this kind were normally us ...

One group of artefacts which has been found in a great many Viking Age graves in Scandinavia consists of rock-crystal and carnel ...

Khazaei, H. ( 2004 ) ‘Et samanidisk myntfunn fra Porsgrunn’, Norsk numismatisk tidsskrift, 2 : 5 – 14. Kromann, A. ( 1990 ) ‘The ...

CHAPTER FORTY ARABIC SOURCES ON THE VIKINGS J.E. Montgomery T he Vikings appear sporadically across some six centuries in Arabic ...

J.E. Montgomery, ‘Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources’, in Y. Suleiman (ed.) Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Carole H ...

of mercantile goods from all around the world: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Khurasan, Khazaria and Burjan, brought there by the ‘merchan ...

is absent in the late copy kept in Cambridge University Library (Suppl. 1006 ). The question is important for understanding the ...

of Ibn Fadlan require further study. Too much has been made of the text’s status as an ‘official’ chancellery report of the emba ...

Bibliography: Arabic text: Annales (Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium: Scrip- tores Arabici, series 3 , vol. 6 ), L. C ...