silk trade in the Viking Age

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

After four years of in-depth investigation of the silk trade during the Viking Age, Marianne Vedeler, Associate Professor at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo has found that the Norwegian Vikings maintained trade connections with Persia and the Byzantine Empire through a network of traders from a variety of places and cultures who brought the silk to the Nordic countries.

Persian silk in Viking burials – Archaeology News from Past Horizons

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Research details are presented in the book “Silk for the Vikings”, to be published by Oxbow publishers this winter, but in this article you can glimpse some of her key findings.