At the time the Arabs had megacities, books, canalization and civil rights. Northern folks dwelled in their evil-smelling shitholes at this time.Don´t mind. Surely life in the Middle East was way better than staying in the longhouse with the cattle.They maintained trade routes to the Middle East whereto they sold the young blonde girls.Not traditionally, and not to any great extent before advanced sailboat shipbuilding techniques of the 1400s or so.They were also slave and sex slave traders. Some even say they were the Philistines
The concept of a Holy Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was originally the Vikings' or Aryans' (white people's) interpretation of the Christian religion as it was revealed to them.
There is too much the lady to the Roman Catholic religion, which the Vikings rejected with stories of a lady's beard, the loud footfalls of a cat and other things that ought not to be.
Read Ibn Fadal.. He lived with them and kept a journal. The Vikings often had Arab navigators.
The Vikings loved gold and gemstones and the Arabs loved their furs. The Arabs also had to Kamal for navigation.
True, but it is fascinating to read Ibn Fadal's account of traveling with the Vikings. He isn't prejudiced against them and views them with acceptance and curiosity.
The Vikings in the East | ASNC Viking Age
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