The Birka textiles

[2] The Byzantine emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, author of De administrando imperio, wrote of the Dnieper trade route between Novgorod, Smolensk, Chernigov, Vyshegrad and Teliutza to Byzantium, confirming the existence of a trade route between the North and Mediterranean.[2] Arab writer Ibn Khordadhbeh wrote in the 9th century about Vikings sailing along the Caspian Sea to "Djordjan".They would conduct trades using eunuch interpreters and carry their purchased goods back to Baghdad by camel caravan.There are 2500 rune stones dating between c. 1000-1100 honor men who died in "the Österled (Eastern lands); in Gardarike (Russia), Holmgard (Nogorod), Greece, Miklagard (Byzantium), Jursalia (Jerusalem) and Sarkland (Persia).Advanced tablet-weaving was known in Nordic countries since before the Viking Age, but these materials and specific constructions are otherwise unknown outside the Birka textiles.
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