The strange attempt to find Muslim Vikings …

The strange attempt to find Muslim Vikings

4 June 2025, 6:00am David Abulafia

A charity called the Brilliant Club offers support to disadvantaged
pupils in non-selective state schools to enable them to aim high and gain
places at leading universities. No one can quarrel with that. But
guidance provided to the charity’s tutors raises concern about the way
the scholars are being taught. They are being encouraged to believe that
the Vikings were very diverse, were not all white northern Europeans, and
that some of them were quite probably practising Muslims.

Decolonising the Vikings is, admittedly, a difficult task. They were very
good at colonising other people’s lands, including large swathes of the
British Isles, Normandy and the kingdom they founded in Kyiv, even if the
Faroes, Iceland and Greenland were largely empty of people when the
Vikings turned up. They were not all Danes, Norwegians and Swedes – a
German took part in their discovery of North America and Estonians; Anglo-
Saxons and Irishmen joined their expeditions or conducted raids in the
same way as they did.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-strange-attempt-to-find-muslim-vikings/

А това по повод споровете за расовата принадлежност на Орфей.

Наблегнете на картинката, а не на религията. Не изключвам вероятността да
е имало чисти арийци, приели исляма, ама да има чернокожи викинги?! Пак
ли за митове ще си говорим, за Тор и викингите?

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