12-11-2005, 10:39 PM
Quote:Quite right, I mean it is fascinating when say, a small 'so called satue of Buddha' turns up in a Viking context in Birka, Sweden,
Why so impossible?The Vikings managed to get to Constantinople(Miklagaard i think they called it).Its not beyond possibilities that an itinerant Silk trader from China or Buddist area took one with him and it found its way into the posession of Halfdan the Halfwit and he returned home with it as a present for the wife?Is it?
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