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I recall reading about some Buddhist artefacts found at Viking sites. That could put their travels much older than whats mentioned here. http://irisharchaeolog
by arjn 12y ago
I recall reading about some Buddhist artefacts found at Viking sites. That could put their travels much older than whats mentioned here.
http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viking-age-buddha/ http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki...
The Vikings sure travelled far and wide.
- olavk 12y agoNot necessarily, artifacts could have traveled through multiple transactions along a trade route without any single person traveling all the way. So the Buddha does not necessarily mean that a viking traveled to Asia or vice versa. Although it does show that continuous interactions happened all the way, which is itself fascinating.
- protomyth 12y agoThat's the most probable explanation. The ancient trade routes were more A to B to C and not A going to C type affairs. The Americans has seen artifacts from the Arctic make it down to Central America, never mind the Pacific islanders.
- fishnchips 12y agoThey travelled far and wide indeed but it is also quite possible that Buddhist artifacts got in their possession via much earlier Sino-Roman trade exchange and then just happened to be in one of the cloisters which Vikings so loved to plunder.