(September 28, 2021 at 5:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote:Yup they also traded with the Spanish Moors generally from their settlement at Dublin(September 27, 2021 at 4:15 pm)Helios Wrote: The Islamic kingdoms and the Vikings traded often and the Vikings often sold themselves as mercenaries to whoever could pay. So this shouldn't be a surprise.
Slaves, too, were a big Viking commodity; Baghdad was a major trade center for this. And, as you said, this story, while interesting, adds little to nothing new (in my opinion at least) in the area of medieval studies.
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