Occam’s razor - Viking sacked someplace where Muslims existed, took the ring as loot and gave it to his woman back home. Trying to spin this into something more, such as some sort of cultural exchange program or something, is insanity unless you have a lot more evidence.
Maybe Richard Widmark brought it home to the wife after the Mother of Voices crushed Sidney Poitier....
“Trying to spin this into something more, such as some sort of cultural exchange program or something, is insanity unless you have a lot more evidence.”
So you’re saying that raiding and reiving are not forms of cultural exchange? Are you SURE of that? I could have sworn that most of those guys went looking for stuff their own culture didn’t have. I’m SURE that’s cultural exchange. My friend Conan said so! ;)
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