Allah Is Found on Viking Funeral Clothes

[Johnyawl]

7. "...proven that those areas were under the influence of Islam..."? lol

One piece of fabric in one grave hardly indicates Islamic influence on Viking culture.

The Vikings were traders, and traded down the Russian rivers to the Black Sea, Constantinople, Persia and beyond. We know that furs and amber flowed down those rivers and silk and slaves flowed north. That may have been fabric that was traded for and taken home to Scandinavia; it may have been the robe of a middle eastern woman who was bought or captured and taken home.

That the Swedish Vikings were in contact with middle eastern cultures is indisputable, and has been known for centuries. But "under the influence of Islam" is a nonsensical overstatement of the facts.